Inside the Reproductive Sciences Lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, researchers are on the cutting edge to detect and prevent ovarian cancer.

About 55% of people assigned a patient navigator got a follow-up colonoscopy after their stool test revealed a risk of colon cancer, compared with nearly 43% of patients who were simply notified of the abnormal test and given a referral, researchers reported March 31 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

In an intention-to-screen population, participation in any form of screening was 31.8% in the colonoscopy group and 39.9% in the FIT group (risk ratio [RR] 0.79, 95% CI 0.77-0.82), reported Antoni Castells, MD, of the University of Barcelona, and colleagues in The Lancet.

Corcept Therapeutics said on Monday its experimental drug in combination with chemotherapy helped delay progression of a type of ovarian cancer in a late-stage trial.

It may seem unusual to discuss future fertility when a family is reeling from the diagnosis of a child’s cancer. But 85% of children with cancer now survive to adulthood and about 1 in 3 are left infertile from chemotherapy or radiation.

Not to be confused with stomach or gastric cancer, these are the colorectal or colon cancer signs you should pay attention to.

A woman diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer has told the BBC the NHS said her Body Mass Index (BMI) was too high to discuss surgery. Rosemarie Winfield, 44, from Hailsham in East Sussex, was diagnosed in 2024 and is currently undergoing treatment.

Meghan McCain said Tuesday she’s “absolutely heartbroken” to learn that the recently passed government spending bill wipes out an important source of funding to research glioblastoma, the brain cancer that killed her father.