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 ...

The new Sassun-Mayo staging system, which integrates tumor deposit and lymph node counts, improves prognostic accuracy for patients with colon cancer compared with the standard American Joint ...

Managing Pain and Discomfort While Deciding on a Course of Treatment Medically reviewed by Archana Sharma, DO Stage 4 colon cancer, also known as metastatic colon cancer, is an advanced cancer that ...

A survivor is sharing the colorectal cancer symptoms she missed in the hopes of helping others. About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the ...

Five years after being diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer at 28, Joe Faratzis is reflecting on the six red flags that signaled he was struggling with a serious disease. “I put these symptoms off ...

Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2009;9(8):777-785. Traditional paradigms for staging patients with colorectal cancer incorporating standard histopathological assessment of regional lymph nodes underestimate the ...

Colorectal cancer refers to cancers of the colon and rectum, which are both a part of the large intestine. Getty Images Normally, we prefer our bowels to keep it low-key. But experts say that silence ...

As more people aged 45-49 are getting screened for colon cancer, more early stage diagnoses are being made, according to new research from the American Cancer Society. The recommended age to begin ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — 49-year-old Margarita Perez never thought she'd see the day she was diagnosed with colon cancer — nonetheless Stage III. "I was asymptomatic, no family history of colon cancer, not ...

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