Q: My friend was just diagnosed with colon cancer, and they said it's stage IIIB. What does that mean? How do doctors figure out the stage? A: When someone is diagnosed with colon cancer, one of the ...

When he suddenly struggled to walk up the stairs of his Manhattan home, he never imagined it would be cancer.Start the day ...

A survivor is sharing the colorectal cancer symptoms she missed in the hopes of helping others. About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the ...

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Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...

Treatment with a GLP-1 receptor agonist (RA) may offer a survival advantage in patients with colon cancer and obesity. In a real-world analysis of nearly 7000 patients with colon cancer, those taking ...

I was living a normal 29-year-old life. I thought my symptoms were no big deal, until they started happening more ...