Cancers affecting the digestive system are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Many of these cancers develop slowly and may not cause clear symptoms in the early stages. Because the signs often ...

Colorectal cancer rates are on the rise in young people. We are leading the effort to understand, prevent, and treat this disease with compassion and innovation. Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Integrated ...

Early-onset gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are climbing among those younger than 50 years, in the US and globally. Although colorectal cancer accounts for approximately half of such cases, rates are ...

Younger people are developing colorectal cancer at an alarming rate. So much so, that the rate had doubled since the 1990s in people under the age of 50. Colorectal cancer has become the leading cause ...

It took three years, four emergency-room visits and multiple misdiagnoses before Reuben Cheatem was diagnosed with stage III colorectal cancer. The painter was living in Mexico just before the ...

Explore the urgent need for awareness and early detection in managing gastrointestinal cancers to improve patient outcomes in ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor Brett Loman (pictured) and co-author Zainab Alzoubi mined hundreds of studies to find the most effective methods to treat GI side effects in patients ...

The liver is an extremely sensitive organ. It filters blood, eliminates toxins and creates bile to digest food; without a functioning liver, a person will die. Its sensitive nature, however, makes it ...