Radwah Oda was diagnosed with colon cancer at 30. She shares five symptoms she dismissed, including narrow stools, blood in ...

Eight ways to reduce your risk of bowel cancer - Around half of all bowel cancers could be prevented by having a healthier ...

People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, are known to have an increased chance of bowel cancer, but not all will develop it. Now, a study ...

A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher risk people will develop the disease, research has shown. People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD ...

Bowel cancer screening can support cancer prevention and drive earlier diagnosis. Be Clear on Cancer (BCOC) campaigns were carried out to drive bowel screening uptake in England and Wales to support ...

An experimental blood test can effectively and accurately detect colon cancer in middle-aged folks and seniors, a new study says. The research is published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Pharmaceutical company GSK and Oxford University are teaming up to devise a groundbreaking cancer vaccine poised to stop the disease from developing in the first place. The ambition lies in ...

Colonoscopies aren’t used only to detect cancer, but also to check for other bowel inflammation conditions such as colitis, Crohn’s or diverticular disease. The last is very common from the ...

People are being urged not to be "squeamish" and to make use of a home-testing kit for bowel cancer when it arrives in the post. NHS England announced earlier this month that the age for the test was ...