A team led by clinicians and engineers has wrapped the plant-derived polyphenol pterostilbene (PSB) into prebiotic ...

Researchers have shown that a bacterium plucked from the gut of this frog can successfully eradicate aggressive colon tumors ...

As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a macrophage white blood cell (center) that ...

Most patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) respond to initial therapy, but an estimated 10% to 40% don't, and some others become resistant to treatment over long periods of time. For many ...

Jeff Smith was dumbfounded when he received a colon cancer screening kit in the mail. The 68-year-old Minnesota man hadn't asked for the Cologuard test, and his doctor hadn't mentioned anything about ...

The surgical outcomes of colon cancer vary with its anatomical location. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can aid in improving the postsurgical outcomes of both right and left colon cancer, decreasing the ...

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A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why. A study of 100 marathon and ultramarathon runners aged 35 to 50 found ...

A pocket-sized water bottle might sound counterintuitive at first, but Hydro Flask’s Micro Hydro combines form and function so well that the petite bottle has sold out multiple times. The last time it ...

Scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have identified a mutation in a common oncogene — a gene that can cause cancer — that may play an important role in colon cancer. Researchers also showed how this ...

Scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have identified a mutation in a common oncogene - a gene that can cause cancer - that may play an important role in colon cancer. Researchers also showed how this ...