Younger adults may have the highest risk of presenting with distant-stage colorectal cancer, according to researchers. A distant-stage cancer is one that has spread beyond adjacent organs or tissues.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Individuals aged between 20 and 39 years had the greatest burden of distant early-onset colorectal ...

Copy number differences in EGFR and other amplicons between primary colon tumors and paired lymph node metastasis. Background: Operative management of primary tumor and distant metastases in stage IV ...

Circulating tumor cells as predictive marker in panitumumab after progression of cetuximab in Japanese patients with KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer.

Distant Distant colon cancer means cancer has spread to other areas of the body. The 5-year survival rate for a person with this stage of colon cancer is 14%.

Cancer is generally a disease of the aging, but doctors are seeing more cases of early-onset colorectal cancer, and the sharpest increase in metastatic, early-onset colorectal cancer is among people ...

At-home FIT screening involves testing stool for amounts of blood too small to see, which can help to diagnose colon cancer ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...