Colorectal Cancer

How to respond to others that pull away after the cancer diagnosis.

In assessing the quality of family cancer history entered into electronic health records, researchers found that such reporting was suboptimal – highlighting the need to optimize online collection with a provider-free approach.

From cancer-sniffing dogs to music therapy for pain, here’s what is making headlines in the cancer space this week.

Katie Couric lost both her husband and her sister to cancer within only a few years of one another. The legendary broadcast journalist spoke about the devastating loss of her loved ones and shared how she moved past her grief.

Like opposing wind fronts my emotions collided, spinning off a funnel of survivor guilt on a day I never thought would come.

From today’s top entertainers to racial disparities in access to pain treatment, here’s what is making headlines in the cancer space this week.

A devoted husband and caregiver shares the poetry he wrote for his beloved wife, Mary Lee, after doctors gave her 18 to 36 months to live.

Here are the top 5 CURE stories for May 2019.

We have to find light in the darkness of cancer not just for ourselves, but for those that will come after us.

Compared with the general population, men and women with type 2 diabetes face greater risk of developing certain cancers, such as colorectal, kidney, liver and more.

I have two perspectives as I look at clinical trials: as the patient needing one and as an advocate encouraging patients to enroll in them. But how can I encourage someone to do something that I personally find so frustrating?

A disaster psychologist sees parallels between surviving Hurricane Katrina and surviving stage 4 colon cancer.

Lack of awareness and knowledge of early-onset colorectal cancer is a problem, but early messaging can help combat the issue.

Surveillance guidelines for hereditary colorectal cancer may be more effective in preventing the disease compared with those intended for individuals with a family history.

Here are the top 5 CURE stories for April 2019.

Researchers examined the prevalence of chronic opioid use among survivors of breast, colorectal and lung cancer.

Fight Colorectal Cancer (Fight CRC) has collaborated with Flatiron Health to develop a smartphone application for its Late-Stage, MSS-CRC Clinical Trial Finder. The first-of-its-kind app — now available for both iOS and Android — enables patients with late-stage Microsatellite Stable (MSS) colorectal cancer to research relevant clinical trials via their phone.

"There is a special class of nurse that exceeds all expectations, a nurse who embodies these characteristics as part of the very fabric of who she is as a human being, one who seemingly was born to love and serve, and that is where you can find Darcy Doege, B.S.N., RN,” wrote Mellisa Wheeler, M.H.A., B.S.W., Atrium Health’s Levine Cancer Institute.

Telling my three young daughters about my cancer diagnosis was the hardest conversation of my life. Here are some tips I learned that I hope will help you navigate the conversation no one is prepared to have.

As much as patients look forward to the day they can ring the bell or hear they have no evidence of disease, it can also mean they will be sent out on their own to sort through life with the long-term damage of cancer.

An expert discusses genetic profiling and other advances in the treatment of colorectal cancer.

Combining two immunotherapies known as checkpoint inhibitors along with best supportive care prolonged life by two and a half months in patients with advanced colorectal cancer that resisted previous treatments.

By joking about her cancer diagnosis, one survivor hopes to raise awareness and help people find laughter.

From radioactive remains to entertainment news, check out this week’s quick overview of what is making headlines in the cancer space.

The side effects of colorectal cancer and its treatment—which span beyond fertility issues—require constant renegotiation and reframing of what it means to be me.

Why use one term over the other? It's not about exclusion, but rather inclusion and reaching all at risk for this disease-- which happens to be everyone.

A daily dose of diet soda may help protect survivors of colon cancer from disease recurrence and death.

Your disease does not make you unworthy, because only the worthy will see past it.

I've had many outward signs that let the world know I had cancer, so the latest addition to my wardrobe didn't exactly make it much more obvious.

A geneticist I never met in person saved my life by insisting my gastroenterologist do a new colonoscopy. Had it not been for Mellissa Clarkson, I would have battled a new cancer that may have been discovered too late.