Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. During a free lecture on June 25, Lompoc Health – North H Center’s Dr. William Ganske will combine two of his medical ...

When he suddenly struggled to walk up the stairs of his Manhattan home, he never imagined it would be cancer.Start the day ...

When you narrow the numbers further, the risk for young Black Americans is even more severe. The American Cancer Society ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the deadliest cancers in the US — nearly 53,000 Americans are expected to die of it this year. Experts say you can reduce your risk of developing this “silent killer” ...

Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers in the United States, but each year it claims more than 50,000 lives – in part because early symptoms can be mild and easily missed. “Colon cancer ...

Ignore this red flag, and it could come back to bite you in the rear. A new study has identified the “strongest predictor of colorectal cancer” in adults under 50 — increasing the odds of a diagnosis ...

Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and as the years pass, it’s clear that the degree of people under 50 that are being diagnosed with the ...

Colorectal cancer rates have been steadily increasing in younger adults in recent decades – a phenomenon that has gone largely unexplained. A toxin produced by certain strains of bacteria — in ...

Risk factors for colorectal cancer include both things you can and cannot control. If you have some known risk factors, you may want to take steps to reduce your exposure to modifiable risk factors.