Cancer is cruel. It doesn’t care that you’re only 37, that you're the mother of a little girl who is your entire world. So Elissa vowed to fight.

EndoQuest Robotics completed two procedures with its endoluminal system, while Virtuoso Surgical successfully performed ...

Six years ago, the patient underwent a “radical resection of sigmoid colon cancer.” Following surgery, the patient received adjuvant chemotherapy comprising oxaliplatin and capecitabine (I will omit ...

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 ...

Several factors significantly influence prognosis, including the stage of the cancer at diagnosis, its location within the colon and the effectiveness of treatment. A new study suggests that a ...

Blood Test Could Guide Use of Anti-Inflammatory Drug Celecoxib to Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer Recurrence Jan. 28, 2025 — A data analysis from a randomized clinical trial for stage 3 colon cancer ...

A fit and healthy dad, whose stage three colon cancer was misdiagnosed as an ulcer ... endoscopy revealed a mass on the dad’s colon. In surgery a month later, doctors removed 10 inches of ...

It might even have anti-cancer properties. Previous research indicates that metformin could offer a protective effect against the development of colon cancer. For instance, a meta-analysis of 58 ...

Colon cancer is a type of cancer (abnormal cells growing uncontrollably) that begins in the large intestine. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder in how the brain and gut communicate and ...

And I was then told I was cancer-free at that point,” Spill said. “I then was told I did not have to go through radiation, I did not have to go through surgery, and that was like one of the ...

“In our study in rectal cancer ... surgery actually had a pathologic complete response,” Cercek said. “Two patients with hepatobiliary cancers also had a complete response and colon was ...

In fact, the preoperative GIQLI score decreased from an average of 106.2 points before surgery to 92.7 points after 1 week after surgery, but it was 104.6 points after 6 months and 113.4 points ...