Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Images A new study found higher levels of inflammation in colorectal cancer tumors, suppressing the body’s ability to fight the disease. Researchers note the typical ...

If you have a colorectal disease such as diverticulitis or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the treatment may be delivered by a colorectal surgeon or gastroenterologist depending on the severity of ...

Catherine, Princess of Wales, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. She's since undergone treatment and is now considered cancer free. After revealing she had completed her chemotherapy ...

Source: Getty Images Colon cancer, which is often grouped together with rectal cancer and called colorectal cancer, is the third most common cancer in the United States (excluding skin cancer ...

Serious causes of rectal pressure are less common and include diverticulitis, rectal prolapse, and anal cancer. Pressure in the rectum can feel like a need to move your bowels. It can also feel like ...

To identify and estimate the prognostic value of molecular biomarkers as predictors of pathological complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in people with locally advanced rectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer, is a cancer formed by uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine), or in the appendix. Genetic analysis shows that ...

This study reports a valuable finding for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC), as the authors demonstrated that the enzyme CPT1A plays a significant role in the response to radiotherapy in CRC ...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, with almost one million deaths occurring annually. 1 In the United States ...

With early-onset colorectal cancer, a person below the age of 50 experiences uncontrollable growth of cells in their colon (the bowel or large intestine) or rectum (the final section of the large ...