Eating at least two servings of yogurt a week may help protect you from cancer in a particular part of the colon.

A new study tied eating at least 2 servings of yogurt per week to a lower risk of an aggressive type of colorectal cancer.

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

Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic condition of unknown origin characterized by severe inflammation and mucosal destruction in the intestine. There are two main forms: Crohn s disease ...

The digestive system comprises several organs, all working in concert to turn the food you eat into energy. But sometimes, illness or injury can lead to a digestive disease that threatens your ...

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 ...

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 ...