Most people with colon cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If colon cancer has spread beyond your colon, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat cancer ...
Research published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology provides robust evidence for the use of a digital visualization and decision support tool in colorectal (bowel) surgery.
If you have ulcerative colitis (UC), your first line of treatment will likely be medication. But even with medication, sometimes symptoms continue to flare, tanking your quality of life along the way.
Recurrent and re-operative colon surgery is a procedure that is performed when cancer in the colon has returned after initial treatment or when a previous colorectal surgery was unsuccessful. This ...
Patients around the world needing colonic surgery may be less likely to experience major complications after surgeons received online education run by the University of Birmingham's Global Surgery ...
A new treatment combining immunotherapy with chemotherapy after surgery cut the risk of cancer coming back and death by 50% for patients with a specific type of stage 3 colon cancer, according to ...
A multi-institutional, international study found that testing for ctDNA after surgery and directing chemotherapy to ctDNA-positive patients reduced the use of chemotherapy overall without compromising ...