A 35-year-old dad and active snowboarder thought his stomach pain was from something he ate. It was colon cancer.

Endurance training is known to improve overall health and a recent study linking it to colon cancer should not deter one from the exercise, shares Dr Sood.

At a conference earlier this summer, a research team from Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia presented new data on colon cancer in runners. Out of 100 marathoners and ultramarathoners between ...