Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel resection can be done for many diseases that affect the colon, such as colorectal ...

Mom thought her stomach cramps, pain, diarrhea from norovirus. They were signs of Stage 4 colon cancer, Lynch syndrome.

A team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed a successful liver transplant in a patient with terminal colorectal cancer. The procedure was made possible through Northwestern’s new ...

Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel resection can be done for many diseases that affect the colon, such as colorectal ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, where health experts, patients and survivors are raising awareness and urging ...

If a surgeon only removes a part of the colon, this procedure is called a hemicolectomy, partial colectomy, or segmental resection. The surgeon will take out the cancerous part of the colon along ...

Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Portland, Maine, September 11, 1931.

The Kentucky Cancer Program used an inflatable colon to educate and bring awareness to colon cancer Thursday at Baptist ...

Your surgeon might remove the part of your large bowel (colon) containing the cancer. This is called a colectomy. Your surgeon also removes nearby lymph nodes. Surgery to remove part of the colon is ...

Like most people, Rob Vite thought colon cancer was something that happened only to those over the age of 50. Never could he imagine a strong, successful high school football coach like him would find ...

Treatment with thermal ablation was noninferior to surgical resection in small-size colorectal liver metastases, according to ...

Background and Aim: For large colorectal tumors, the en bloc resection rate achieved by endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is insufficient, and this leads to a high rate of local recurrence.