Colorectal Surgeon Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar, MD, PhD (seated) with nurse Kieran Kelleher BSN-RN. Dr. Garcia-Aguilar and the colorectal service at MSK are experts at the watch and wait approach to ...

In the 20% of non-rectal cancer patients who still needed surgery post-therapy, researchers saw that the immunotherapy often shrunk the tumor and even lowered the stage classifications of some of ...

Christopher Sadowski “Using the standard-of-care treatment of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy to treat rectal cancer is effective,” Cercek said. “But the treatments can leave people ...

found that the immunotherapy treatment worked against not only advanced rectal cancer but other cancer types too, allowing patients to avoid surgery and other types of more invasive treatment to ...

Among patients with mismatch repair–deficient (dMMR), locally advanced rectal cancer, neoadjuvant checkpoint blockade eliminated the need for surgery in a high proportion of patients.

Innovation plays a strong role in rectal cancer surgery at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. Robotic surgery allows your surgeon to work more efficiently in small spaces, providing an ...

The results from an ambitious cancer study are ... radiation or surgery, including organ removal, the trial found. That included all 49 patients with rectal cancers, who saw their tumors disappear ...

Wen: Treatment depends on multiple factors, including the stage of cancer and the person’s overall health. Surgery is the most common treatment. Radiation and chemotherapy are sometimes offered ...

A woman diagnosed with rectal ... the cancer. Experts at the NHS Clatterbridge Cancer Centre on the Wirral treated her with a type of internal radiotherapy, meaning she avoided invasive surgery.

At 35, Katie Dutton is already a rectal cancer survivor ... In May 2024, Dutton underwent surgery to remove all traces of the mass and most of her rectum. Rashidi then connected the healthy ...

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