BUFFALO, N.Y. – Colorectal cancer (CRC) is no laughing matter. It’s the second-leading cause of cancer deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. But new research led by the ...

MANTACHIE – When Brenda Harbin’s husband, Joe, was preparing to take a Cologuard screening test for colon cancer in late April 2017, she decided she might as well take one too. His results yielded ...

The signs are there, more and more each year, and it’s getting harder and harder to ignore them or explain them away.I can see it in my reflection sometimes. I can hear it in the things I say, the way ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is no laughing matter. It's the second-leading cause of cancer deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. But new research led by the University at Buffalo ...

Heather Tolley-Bauer is a wife, mother, comedian and colon cancer survivor — the latter a title she never expected to hold at the age of 45. In 2014, she and her family picked up their life in ...

Make them laugh and they will … get a colonoscopy? The Virtua Health marketing team discovered a little humor and nostalgia on social media go a long way toward spreading the word that the recommended ...

What a crazy, mixed-up world this is! Just when did I begin to consider my colonoscopy a social outing? “Oh — I know, I know,” I said to myself, waving my right hand in the air like a happy fourth ...

Sometimes it takes a giant traveling colon to save a life. At least that's what the sponsors of "Coco the Colossal Colon" say. Yes, the fabricated, crawl-through, 40-foot-long replica of a human colon ...

Colonoscopies are an essential part of routine care for most adults ages 45 and older, according to Dr. Evelyn Marquez-Mello, a gastroenterologist with Kaiser Permanente. That’s because “a colonoscopy ...