“The rectum is different than the sigmoid colon,” she explains. “Each of these regions has a somewhat different biology and predilection to tumor formation.” Alexandrov and Sears agree ...

The exam revealed that she had a 5-centimeter polyp in her sigmoid colon, the section of the colon that connects to the rectum. Shortly thereafter, doctors removed 3 feet of her colon and 13 lymph ...

The large intestine includes four sections: the sigmoid colon, which connects the colon to the rectum; the descending colon, which runs down the left side of your body; the transverse colon ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon, the part of the large intestine that connects to the rectum. The Hamilton ...

At operation a firm mass was present in the sigmoid colon, some 10.0 cm. above the pelvic peritoneal reflection, and apparently at the site of the previous anastomosis; multiple loops of small gut ...

A CT scan after those treatments showed that her liver metastases, were shrinking but another mass in her sigmoid colon appeared to be growing. Her doctors wanted to shrink and reduce most of her ...

Her colon had to be “unkinked” during an emergency colonoscopy, Grenham says, then shortened to prevent it from happening again. The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine nearest ...

Following the dissection of the rectal muscle sheath above the peritoneal reflection, the rectum was meticulously ... involved careful stripping of the rectum and mesocolon off the sigmoid colon, ...

Some potential benefits were observed for high-dose vitamin D3 in patients with left-sided tumors (those in the descending colon, sigmoid colon, or rectum), suggesting that there might be specific ...

This operation removes a diseased section of the rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use it to treat the following conditions: Cancers of the colon and rectum Some types of noncancerous growths in ...

A phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fruquintinib combined with tislelizumab and hepatic artery infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) for advanced colorectal cancer liver metastases: An ...