Background and Aim: Obstruction of the lumen of the appendix is the major cause of appendicitis. Tumors could obstruct this lumen and cause appendicitis in the elderly. The association between ...

A new study shows that a bacterium that causes appendicitis and gum disease is also found in colon tumors. Researchers suggest that it may set the stage for colorectal cancer, the second-deadliest ...

Two research teams find fuscobacterium in colon tumors. Oct. 17, 2011— -- A bacterium that causes appendicitis and gum disease has been detected in colon tumors, according to new research that ...

A colonoscopy can save your life by detecting and removing colon cancer, but it might also trigger appendicitis, a recent study suggests. Experts aren’t sure exactly why that happens, and, fortunately ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Appendicitis occurred approximately seven times more frequently in the week following colonoscopy, according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the one organ we’ve been told is basically useless, and now it might actually be harboring a stealthy health risk. So ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Stephen Colbert is away from late-night TV following emergency surgery last week — the comedian's appendix burst. That made us wonder: What does the appendix do for our body? And why are ...

Appendix cancer cases are rising sharply among young adults, a new study shows. The findings, published June 10 in Annals of Internal Medicine, found that Gen Xers and Millennials are developing ...

The human body is still a mystery, and some organs have largely been considered useless in one way or another. However, the ...

The identification of high-risk stage II colon cancers is key to the selection of patients who require adjuvant treatment after surgery. Microarray-based multigene-expression signatures derived from ...

From January 1998 to December 2003, a total of 1873 patients were diagnosed with acute appendicitis at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Of these, 16 were found to have colorectal cancer at the ...