Colon cancer earns its reputation as a silent killer because it often grows unnoticed. Fiber helps break that silence by ...

A woman who dismissed blood in her stool as hemorrhoids was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer. Meagan Meadows, 24, started experiencing blood in her stool in October 2024, but after chatting ...

It was June 2020, and Stefania Frost's family had just gotten together at a barbecue for the first time since the pandemic started. But the next day, Frost, a second-grade teacher in Waltham, ...

At 26, most people are juggling rent, careers, and group chats, not life-or-death medical decisions. So when a young woman ...

Chris Lopez had just come back from a vacation in California when he started to feel stomach cramps he describes as “intense stabbing pain.” It was the spring of 2019 and the young chef, who lives in ...

Share on Pinterest When 29-year-old Chris Lopez (pictured above) went to the doctor with severe abdominal pain, he thought it might be food poisoning. He never imagined it could be a symptom of colon ...

Scientists have discovered that oestrogen activates pathways in the colon that trigger pain and make the female gut more sensitive to certain foods ...