If you’re one of the 155,000 Americans who develop colorectal cancer this year, you’ll likely experience a roller coaster of emotions. Colorectal cancer occurs when cells in the colon or rectum grow ...
When he suddenly struggled to walk up the stairs of his Manhattan home, he never imagined it would be cancer.Start the day ...
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 ...
PHOENIX — Patients treated for cancer with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) who develop the drugs’ known side effects of diarrhea and colitis experience increased risk of adenomas in the colon — ...
GLP-1 drugs are 36% more effective than aspirin in reducing colorectal cancer risk, with fewer side effects like acute kidney injury and gastrointestinal bleeding. Diarrhea is a more common side ...
Colon cancer is a particularly deadly form of the disease, the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. But patients diagnosed with colon cancer also need to be concerned about their ...