Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You know that you should book a mammogram every two years and a dental cleaning every year, but what about the rest of your body?

When medical procedures are designed around male anatomy, women often pay the price – in pain, difficulty and dismissal.

Colon cancer is often thought of as a man's disease. But it isn't. The disease affects men and women equally and is the third most common type of cancer in women — after lung and breast cancer.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — It's something many people associate with older men, but more women than ever before are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Now, The American Cancer Society is changing the ...

Medicare pays for colonoscopy screening tests, but how often they're covered depends on whether you are at high or low risk for colorectal cancer. If you are at low risk for colorectal cancer, ...

In all, women who get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer are still far more likely than other women to have their colons examined through colonoscopy or other methods, the U-M ...

It's a fact of midlife: After 40, we're more likely to need certain medical tests to preserve our health. Learning that you have to undergo something with a hard-to-pronounce name (what is a ...

You know that you should book a mammogram every two years and a dental cleaning every year, but what about the rest of your body? A colonoscopy is a routine medical procedure that could save your life ...