Laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer is a safe alternative but further studies are required to clarify its advantages; laparoscopy for rectal cancer requires further scrutiny Laparoscopic colorectal ...

Colorectal surgery involves resection, or removal, of parts of the colon, rectum or both, to remove cancer. Surgery is most effective when the tumor is diagnosed before it has spread to other parts of ...

Programmed cell death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression and outcome in patients with squamous cell cancer of anal canal (SCCAC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

Al Suwaiq Hospital recently succeeded in conducting the first laparoscopic colon resection in its history. The surgery set a ...

An anastomotic leak after colorectal surgery is a highly undesirable event that can lead to excess mortality, reoperative surgery, and increased length of stay. At 2.7%, the overall anastomotic leak ...

Thermal ablation demonstrated noninferiority to surgical resection for small colorectal liver metastases, with comparable overall survival and local control outcomes. The COLLISION trial showed ...

Objective: To evaluate predictors and burden of emergency colorectal cancer resection (E-CCR). Study Design: Cross-sectional study of 127 975 discharges of patients with colorectal cancer undergoing ...

Three physicians recently completed the first robotic-assisted colon resection surgeries at Martinsburg, W.Va.-based Berkeley Medical Center. 1. Jason Turner, MD, Robert Cicchino, DO, and Zachary ...

Colon cancer symptoms often don't exist. An active woman shares how repeated nudges from a loved one led to her diagnosis: "My entire life changed that day." ...