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It took three years, four emergency-room visits and multiple misdiagnoses before Reuben Cheatem was diagnosed with stage III ...

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Colon cancer is the second-deadliest cancer in the US, partly due to low screening rates. New and emerging screening tools, like blood and breath tests, may offer alternatives to in-office screenings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 24, Meagan Meadows thought she was too young to have colon cancer but was diagnosed with stage 3. The only warning sign was ...

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

There’s a useful chart that can help you determine if your stool falls into a healthy or not-so-healthy category.

Olympic gold medalist Abby Wambach had a colonoscopy in her 30s after a family history of colon cancer. It found polyps that may have become tumors.

"If I would have known that so many young people were getting diagnosed with colon cancer, I would have taken the symptom more seriously," Meagan Meadows said Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at ...