Dr. Yufei Liu discusses how updates to precision radiation therapy are reshaping colorectal cancer care. As Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month highlights the importance of early detection and ...
Piedmont Oncology physicians want to educate people about colorectal cancer and what you can do to decrease your risk of developing it or enable an earlier, more curable diagnosis.
When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think "surgery." And it's true that surgery plays a central role in treatment for ...
Colorectal cancer, or cancer of the bowel or rectum, has long been associated with older adults. However, in recent years, cases among people under 50 have surged.
Colon cancer is appearing more often in younger adults, and many of those cases go undetected until the disease has already spread.
Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...
James Van Der Beek, star of Dawson’s Creek; Catherine O’Hara of Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek; and Chadwick Boseman of Black Panther fame all had something in common: colon or […] ...
Mrinali Dhembla, 27, diagnosed with stage-3 colorectal cancer and Lynch syndrome, recovers rapidly after receiving a dual immunotherapy regimen.
Dr. Eric Dozois, a colon and rectal surgeon at the Mayo Clinic says that cancer cases in Minnesota have been on the rise with patients under 50, with 10 percent of colorectal cases now being in that ...
Colorectal cancer is often spoken of as a single disease, but it actually refers to two related cancers: colon cancer and rectal cancer. The latter was recently revealed as the reason we lost the ...
After doctors told him he had just two to three years to live, a South Carolina father turned to Duke Health for a second ...