I prayed to God and I said, ‘You know, if you just let me live, I’ll do anything I can to make sure that other people have this information,'” New Jersey mom Elaine ...

While both are called medullary carcinoma, these cancers differ in many ways: ...

But it hasn't reached your lymph nodes or other parts of your body ... like your rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use "5-year relative survival rates" to describe how likely someone is to die ...

Certain genes called oncogenes ... remove the part of the colon that contains cancer, as well as some of the surrounding area. A surgeon may remove nearby lymph nodes to reduce the risk of spreading.

Surgery is the primary treatment for colorectal cancer that is limited to the colon. It aims to remove cancerous tissue, including tumors and affected lymph nodes, and prevent the cancer from ...

Shannin Desroches was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. She had no symptoms for years, experiencing a nagging pain only ...

Lymph node swelling, also called lymphadenopathy, is fairly common and usually not serious. If you only have swelling in one or two lymph nodes, you likely have an infection in a nearby part of ...

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

Carcinomas at any point in the ascending colon, including the hepatic flexure, may properly be grouped with carcinomas of the cecum, as all these lesions tend to metastasize to lymph nodes along ...

Colon cancer has been on the rise in Americans under 50 for the last three decades, but it’s not exactly clear why. Researchers suspect poor diet, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, environmental ...

There is something you can do that may help you live longer after a colon cancer diagnosis, and you can start it on your own, at your home or a gym. Exercise is associated with longer lives for ...