So, when she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, her world was turned upside down. But the 36-year-old mother of two was determined to beat her diagnosis - which has a survival rate of 13 ...

Crohn’s Disease can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract, but most commonly targets the terminal ileum and proximal colon. A key characteristic of Crohn’s is transmural involvement ...

Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

who ordered a blood test that confirmed she was anaemic – her red blood cell count was low. Follow-up tests including an endoscopy and colonoscopy revealed a malignant tumour in her colon.

The surgeon makes an opening (stoma) in your belly. Then they attach the top end of your colon or ileum (part of the small intestine) to the opening on the inside. A bag is attached on the outside to ...

Dominique McShain started sharing on social media just after her terminal diagnosis interrupted her work and university studies Zoey Lyttle is a Society & Culture Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

most commonly affecting the terminal ileum and colon. This inflammation can lead to complications such as strictures, fistulas, and ulcers. In 2024, there were 1.1 million diagnosed prevalent ...