Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

PHOENIX — Patients treated for cancer with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) who develop the drugs’ known side effects of diarrhea and colitis experience increased risk of adenomas in the colon — ...

A man was given two years to live after a colon cancer diagnosis. Now he's healthy thanks to combination of medicine and the ...

Colon cancer is a particularly deadly form of the disease, the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. But patients diagnosed with colon cancer also need to be concerned about their ...

Weight loss and diabetes drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy may help reduce colon cancer risk, a new study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology found. Researchers reported a 36% lower ...

A mom recalls her first symptoms of colorectal cancer, which she mistook for hemorrhoids caused by her pregnancy at the time. Here's what led to her diagnosis at age 42.