Molecular/genomic profiling is expanding precision selection of systemic therapy and may enable immunotherapy-driven organ ...

A Mass General Brigham Community Care Van parked at a visit to the Greater Boston Catholic Charities food bank in Dorchester.

(Reuters Health) - Americans with colon and rectal cancers may get better care when states expand access to health insurance, a new study suggests. In Massachusetts, after the state expanded access to ...

At-home FIT screening involves testing stool for amounts of blood too small to see, which can help to diagnose colon cancer ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

The Colon Cancer Alliance has issued a statement that calls the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act a “move in the right direction for making the Colon Cancer Alliance’s vision a reality ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Today our Health Spotlight is focusing on Colon Cancer Awareness with the experts at Capital Digestive Care. Colon cancer remains one of the most preventable, yet deadly cancers ...

Americans under 50 years of age are increasingly being diagnosed with colon and rectal cancer, according to a study led by American Cancer Society researchers. For the study, which was published in ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers have developed a checklist of measures they say could improve the quality of care for people undergoing colon cancer surgery. Sign up here. It's becoming ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)—genetic material shed from tumors into the bloodstream—may help risk-stratify patients with Stage 3 colon cancer by tailoring chemotherapy options after surgery based on ...

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