Colon cancer used to carry an unspoken label: older person’s disease. That label no longer fits. Men under 55 now face rising rates of colon cancer, and too many of them lose their lives because they ...

More men are getting colonoscopies to screen for cancer since the Affordable Care Act reduced how much Medicare beneficiaries pay out of pocket for the preventive tests, a recent study found. The ...

ST LOUIS PARK, Minn. — Dr. Tim Myers recently turned 50 and knew that age, combined with family history, meant it was time for a check-in with his doctor. Dr. Myers is a pathologist at Park Nicollet. ...

Colon cancer is one of the most common variants of the disease. Dr Sethi shares signs to help detect and diagnose the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A physician from MUSC in downtown Charleston says November, known as Men’s Health Awareness Month, is a good opportunity to talk about the need for colon cancer screening. Dr ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Polish study of more than 50,000 volunteers screened for colon cancer has found far more cases among men than women, a discovery suggesting that colonoscopy guidelines may need to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, colon cancer has been on the rise in younger people for unclear reasons. While cancer deaths in the U.S. are falling ...

Would you ever consider getting a colonoscopy with friends? That’s what GMA3 co-anchor DeMarco Morgan did for his first colonoscopy, recruiting two of his childhood friends for simultaneous screenings ...

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