Gastroenterologists Keith Siau of The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust found something "particularly eye-catching" inside a 59-year-old man's colon. A colonoscopy is a procedure where a camera is ...

Colon cancer is often called a “silent” disease because it usually develops without any obvious warning signs. Many people don’t know what it actually looks like inside the colon or how early changes ...

Cancer Treatment Centers of America employees Shari Snyder (left) and Alice Johnson look around inside the Mega Colon on exhibit at the center in Tulsa on Friday. Photos by STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World ...

The colon is part of the digestive system. It helps the body absorb water and nutrients from food before excreting the waste. It is made up of muscle and located just below the stomach. People ...

So there I was, on hands and knees, crawling through a 40-foot-long, 4-foot-high human colon. It wasn't a real colon, of course. No human has a colon that size, except maybe Marlon Brando, and I'm ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a potentially novel way to fight colorectal cancer using tiny molecules to deliver potent barrages of radiation inside cancer cells, unlike current treatments ...

A sigmoidoscopy is a test a doctor uses to examine the lower portion of the colon. This procedure can help detect conditions such as colorectal cancer. A sigmoidoscopy involves using a thin instrument ...

This year alone, nearly 150,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer and nearly 50,000 will die, according to the American Cancer Society. Overall rates are declining thanks to improved ...

Untreated colon cancer may spread rapidly to other areas, and life expectancy for some people may be lower compared to those who receive treatment. Surgery and chemotherapy are common treatments and ...