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 ...

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 ...

Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is one of the most common types of cancer in both men and women around the world. It is getting increasingly common, especially among younger adults. In ...

Stool-based screening for colorectal cancer may be sharper in women than in men, and the reason traces back to sex-specific ...

More older men are getting screened for colorectal cancer since the federal health law eliminated the out-of-pocket charges for screening tests,... More men are getting colonoscopies to screen for ...

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 ...