Just when we thought we had enough on our medical to-do list-Pap smears, mammograms, cholesterol checks, stress management, ...

When cancer develops in your small intestine, it can cause symptoms like abdominal pain, bloating, unexplained weight loss, and bloody poop. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will ...

A total of 65 cases of primary small-bowel tumor were found, and in 33 of these the tumors were malignant. Shallow, Eger and Carty 5 state that primary cancer of the small intestine occurs in 0.1 ...

A man was hospitalized after more than three feet of his small intestine broke through a two-inch hole in his abdomen where ...

Study shows that dietary antigens can suppress small intestine carcinogenesis by activating T-cells through Peyer's patches. Adding bovine serum albumin (BSA) or ovalbumin (OVA) to antigen-free ...

The workings of the small intestine have long been a mystery, but now we are discovering the hidden roles this organ plays in ...

Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter the small intestine, ...

The bowel is split into 2 parts - the small bowel and the large bowel. The small bowel makes up most of the digestive system. This page is about cancer that begins in the small bowel. The small bowel ...

In a new report, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at Vanderbilt University focus on a relatively rare cancer—appendiceal cancer, which occurs in the appendix—and found that ...

Cathey Chustz, a lifelong Baton Rouge local, has been married 44 years and has two grown daughters and two young grandchildren. In her career, she worked for the state’s highway department and later ...

Now researchers are turning to an unexpected source for early PDAC detection: faecal samples. While analysing poo might seem ...

The increase in appendix cancer among younger adults is part of a broader trend seen in other gastrointestinal cancers, such ...