Patients with some gastrointestinal tumors were able to be treated with immunotherapy drugs alone and avoid surgery, ...

An ultrasensitive circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)-based liquid biopsy assay detected signs of recurrence prior to imaging and ...

Emma Weston joined the clinical trial after running out of treatment options. For two years, she's been cancer free.

Dr. Nicolas Soputro, a research fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, presented on the use of a robotic transurethral device for bladder tumor resection. He began by emphasizing that transurethral resection ...

Participants in the trial were all patients with tumors ranging from stage 1 to stage 3, meaning the tumors had not yet spread, the release indicated.

According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients ...

A Kaiser Permanente colon cancer screening initiative put a huge dent in cancer cases and deaths over two decades, a new ...

What is colonoscopy? Colonoscopy is a diagnos­tic as well as a therapeutic procedure performed to eval­uate the large intestine (colon, rectum, and anus). A colonoscopy lets the phy­sician look inside ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

A woman has opened up about how lying to her doctors so she could get a colonoscopy ended up saving her life as it caught stage four cancer, despite doctors dismissing her initial symptoms. Sydney ...

I told my wife, AnnaMarie: ‘I know my body. I think I need to go the emergency room.’” Imaging scans soon revealed what would turn out to be stage 4 colon cancer. He was just 43 years old. “It was ...

She referred me to a gastroenterologist. I told him my symptoms. He asked me if there was anyone in my family that had colon cancer, and I told him about my uncle who had died several years prior ...