A PhD student who lost her father to colorectal cancer and has dedicated her degree and future career to research of the ...

The large intestine—which includes the cecum, colon, rectum, and anus—is a key part of the digestive system. It's a long, thin organ at the end of your digestive tract where your body produces and ...

A natural compound found in long pepper can be an effective and cost-efficient agent against colon cancer cells, said ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time to focus on cancers of the large and small intestines. Cancer in those organs impacts hundreds of thousands of people each ...

For many people, the word “colonoscopy” brings feelings of fear, embarrassment, and discomfort. Although it is one of the ...

The major problem with colon cancer is that its symptoms are frequently indistinct in their early stages and appear to be ...

When protein antigens are injected into the small intestine of wild-type mice, they are passed to dendritic cells in the Peyer's patches; similar experiments in M-cell-deficient mice result in fewer ...