Undergoing cancer treatment at a younger age can put the survivors at risk of developing numerous gastrointestinal polyps, even if they do not have hereditary susceptibility to polyposis. The ...

For 10% of colorectal cancer patients, hereditary factors play a role, with higher percentages among younger patients.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The frequency of polyp diagnoses in close relatives was strongly associated with colorectal cancer risk.

Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among people under 50 in the US, a study in the Journal of the ...

Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.