People 65 and older are seeing their rates of colorectal cancer drop, but younger people are being felled by a rising number ...

Colonoscopies are still the gold standard, but experts now endorse a high-tech stool test and a blood draw amid rising rates ...

Young people who survive cancer have double the risk of being diagnosed with most types of cancer later in life, new research says. Among the nearly 24,500 people ages 15-39 who were diagnosed with ...

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Obesity might be to blame for part of the increase in cancer among young people, a study in the UK has found, but the causes largely remain a mystery ...

Scientists say factors that shape the microbiome early in life — including diet, antibiotics, and breastfeeding — may ...

For decades, colon cancer was thought to be a disease to worry about after 50. But that narrative is changing, and fast. Gastroenterologists across the country are reporting a troubling trend: more ...

Shocked. Michelle Reiss never thought she'd hear the word cancer, let alone Hodgkin lymphoma, about herself. But that was the diagnosis the now 36-year-old faced in 2024. Questions swirled: What ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The worrisome rise in colorectal cancer deaths in younger adults is concentrated in people with less education, suggesting socioeconomic factors could be driving the escalation, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than 50. The deaths of ...

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