Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent types of cancer and has a high mortality rate globally. Oral ...

Luminescent gold nanoparticles (L-AuNPs) represent a novel class of luminescent nanomaterials that have attracted ...

Gene mutations can contribute to the formation of adenomatous polyps because they cause cells to divide in an unregulated way. Some of these mutations (such as APC, TP53, and KRAS) are associated with ...

Cancer can develop when cells grow and divide uncontrollably and do not die at the normal point in their life cycle. According to the ACS, researchers are unsure of the exact cause of colon cancer ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Colon cancer cases are soaring in young people, alarming experts and leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to why. Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal ...

She was later an Air Force officer. By Clay Risen Nancy Leftenant-Colon, a granddaughter of enslaved people who in 1948 became the first Black nurse to serve in the regular U.S. armed forces ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This late 1940’s photo provided by the US Air Force Historical Support Office shows retired U.S. Army ...

Getting regular checkups and colon cancer screening is the best way to prevent colorectal cancer. The US Preventive Services Task Force and the American Cancer Society both recommend that people ...

Family history.Certain genetic conditions can run in families that can increase the risk of developing polyps and colon cancer. So if you have a parent, brother, sister, or child who has had ...

Cancer cells can poison attacking immune cells by filling them with defective mitochondria ― dampening the body’s defensive forces and helping the tumour to evade eradication 1. These findings ...