For many people diagnosed with colorectal cancer, surgery can bring lifesaving treatment but also lasting changes.

A permanent ostomy bag and a long recovery are often associated with colorectal cancer surgery, but according to a surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine, advances in the field mean that these concerns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jessica Grossman was faced with a difficult choice when she was 13 years old. "I was so sick that my intestines were basically ...

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients have a ...

LANSING – State prison is no country club. Especially if you have to go to the bathroom into a plastic bag attached to your side. "Nobody wanted to be my bunkie, for sure," said former prisoner ...

Suzanne Dore, a 42-year-old British mother-of-two, is a major fashionista. She's also a cancer survivor. Suzanne was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer back in 2010. She'd experienced stomach ...

SAGINAW, MI — Before Shontee R. McMillan was a model, she was self-conscious, depressed and suicidal as a result of a surgery that left her with an ostomy bag. She was diagnosed with rectal cancer in ...

LANSING, Mich. – A former Michigan inmate is suing state jail and prison health care providers, saying he didn't get needed surgery. Former prisoner Kohchise Jackson, who was incarcerated in prisons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, addresses the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan.

"If we don't talk about it, if we don't teach people, how are they going to know to accept us for who we are?" says Jessica Grossman, who founded the nonprofit Uncover Ostomy Jessica Grossman was ...