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 ...

At first glance, colorectal surgery and med-spas don’t seem to go together, but they are complementary when under the expert care of Dr. Anna Toker, a colon and rectal surgeon specializing in robotic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have colon surgery at high-volume hospitals are more likely than patients at smaller ones to go straight home for recovery without needing special care, ...

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 ...

Laparoscopic Colon Surgery Means Faster Recovery for Some Cancer Patients If colorectal cancer is found through screening, surgery is quickly scheduled to remove the tumor. The standard open surgery ...

Colorectal Surgery with Transanal Excision procedure is an option for patients needing colon or rectal removal. In this procedure, the surgeon removes the colon or rectum and the surrounding tissue ...

Fred Hutch’s all-female colorectal surgery team pioneers a multi-disciplinary approach: Drs. Mukta Krane, Sarah Atkinson and Joy Chen. Sarah Atkinson, MD, is a colorectal surgeon at Seattle Cancer ...

"Not all colon polyps are cancerous but all colon cancer starts as a polyp which is why everyone needs to know about them and ...

Age: 38 Diagnosis: stage IV colon cancer Current status: cancer-free Kendi wants to highlight the rate at which colorectal cancer afflicts African American patients, who are 40 percent more likely to ...

These foods make up 70% of the U.S. food supply and may be driving colon cancer rates in people under the age of 50, per the JAMA Oncology study.

The head of the Catholic Church underwent an operation for symptomatic diverticular stenosis on Sunday, according to Vatican City officials Pope Francis is under observation after undergoing colon ...

The 3rd International Colorectal Surgery Conference concluded on Sunday at Raffles Dubai, in a high-level scientific event ...