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This test, sometimes along with a digital rectal exam, is used to screen for cancer or enlargement of the prostate, according to Caamano.
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Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Symptoms can also include fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes and rectal pain.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
As colon and rectal cancers in young people are on the rise globally, especially in the United States, consumption of ultraprocessed foods has been in lockstep.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
This points to a growing public health concern for younger Americans, a population also experiencing similar increases in colorectal cancer diagnoses, added Kim and colleague Aimal Khan, a colon and rectal surgery professor at Vanderbilt.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
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Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Symptoms can also include fever, headache, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes and rectal pain.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
As colon and rectal cancers in young people are on the rise globally, especially in the United States, consumption of ultraprocessed foods has been in lockstep.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
This points to a growing public health concern for younger Americans, a population also experiencing similar increases in colorectal cancer diagnoses, added Kim and colleague Aimal Khan, a colon and rectal surgery professor at Vanderbilt.
—Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Rectal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rectal. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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