When I say "colonoscopy," most people don't respond with "Sign me up." But what if it came with an all-expenses-paid trip to New York?

* Colonoscopies cut cancer death risk 53 percent in study * Colon cancer third most common cancer worldwide * Finding co...

We cannot control the cards we are dealt but we can control how we play them. While these reminders are never pleasant, they are almost always gifts if we choose to treat them as such.

Cancer! If you haven't had it, the prospect terrifies you. If you have had it, it can unnerve and shatter you. Yet the dreaded disease may have an un...

Everybody should discuss with their doctor getting screened for colon cancer by age 50 -- earlier if there's an increased risk because of factors like a family history or inflammatory bowel disease.

Screening people between the ages of 50 and 75 for colorectal cancer is so effective at preventing deaths that the USPSTF gives it an "A" rating, higher than breast or prostate cancer screening.

ATLANTA — More older Americans are getting tested for colon cancer, with nearly two out of three getting recommended screenings. Meanwhile, rat...

Counteracting the social taboo that still surrounds colorectal cancer is crucial to its prevention and early detection. Silence borne of shame or ignorance can in fact equal death.

Until we develop medical policies based on scientific accountability we are condemned to suffer with a permanent cost-quality disconnect in medicine.

Prevention is about staying healthy and not being scared into having unnecessary tests. It is about spending fewer dollars on health care and more on good, clean, healthy living.

I loved my mother dearly, more than anything. She is an irreplaceable woman and there is not a day that goes by that I don't think about her. I lost my mom to colon cancer after a six-year-hard fought battle with the disease. She died too young. She was diagnosed at age 50 and gone by 56.