A 40-year-old woman from Greater Manchester was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer after doctors found dangerously low ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon, the part of the large intestine that connects to the rectum. The Hamilton ...

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can grow into the muscle layers underneath, and then through the bowel wall. Screening is effective at decreasing the chance of dying from colorectal cancer and is recommended starting at the age ...