For 45-year-old Marcus Wendling, who toughed out a half Ironman challenge, a diagnosis of stage 3 rectal cancer came out as a ...

Jonathan Anstee put off seeing a GP about stomach problems and blood in his stool for a year - now he is urging others not to ignore the 'telltale' signs of bowel cancer ...

Pediatric patients with short bowel syndrome‐associated intestinal failure showed improvements in stool consistency and ...

If you make it a regular habit to peek at your poopwhich we actually encourage you to do as one of those good toilet habitsthen you might, on occasion, see a small amount of mucus either in the ...

Sometimes, they just put it off, said Dr. Antoine Pham, an internal medicine doctor with Thrive Medical. He has started prescribing a new kind of screening — the Shield blood test — for his patients ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be ...

One lady had blood in her stool — as a mother busy with a young family she ignored it. She ended up with stage four bowel cancer.” In 2022, Dublin-based Niamh Conroy, then 45 and a mum-of-four ...

Learn what different shades of blood mean and how they signal changes in your health or potential medical issues.

Marisa Peters noticed blood after bowel movements. Doctors dismissed them as changes from motherhood. 5 years later, she was diagnosed with rectal cancer.

A traveller’s persistent diarrhoea uncovers a surprising dual infection. Explore why detailed history and diagnostics are ...

​Even more alarming, younger adults like Beran are often diagnosed at more advanced stages, when the disease is harder to treat and survival rates plummet. As a result, it’s now the deadliest cancer ...