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

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.

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to correct Bryce Ramsey’s place of origin. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A colon cancer survivor credits early screening with saving her life. According to the American ...

The exam revealed that she had a 5-centimeter polyp in her sigmoid colon ... with Stage 3 colon cancer. Ramsey’s support crew wore blue on the morning of her surgery in November 2019.

The sigmoid colon, which is bottom left ... The surgeon uses these tools to remove the cancer. Laparoscopic surgery is also sometimes called minimally invasive surgery. You usually recover more ...

Just when she thought life couldn’t get busier, New Jersey mom of six Elaine Griffin got diagnosed with Stage 2b colon ... underwent surgery and chemotherapy before being declared cancer-free ...

A colonoscopy found that she had cancer ... mass in her sigmoid colon appeared to be growing. Her doctors wanted to shrink and reduce most of her masses so they could perform surgery with ...

And then they told he removed my entire tumor from my sigmoid colon, reconnected my ... and you just had a major, major surgery. We just got so much cancer out of your body." ...

The tumor was mainly located in the sigmoid colon (65.2% of all cases), and a perforated ... risk factors of early postoperative mortality after emergency surgery of obstructive colon cancer (Table 2) ...

A colectomy is a surgical procedure that removes part or all of a colon due to disease or injury. A total colectomy involves the removal of the entire colon, while a partial colectomy removes the ...

This operation removes a diseased section of the rectum and sigmoid ... growths in the colon and rectum Complicated diverticulitis The term "laparoscopic" refers to a type of surgery called ...