Splenic flexure syndrome is a non-life-threatening digestive system disorder associated with upper left abdominal pain and a sensation of fullness and swelling in the belly. Considered by some to ...

Rectal and left-sided colon cancers are not clearly delineated by location but rather are characterized by a range of distinct molecular variations, a phenomenon that has implications for ...

The transverse colon begins after this flexure. Thirty percent of all tumors that develop in the colon or rectum (colorectal tumors) are located in the ascending colon.

Using the SEER database, we identified 90,635 patients with LCC (ie, involving the splenic flexure, descending, sigmoid, and rectosigmoid colon) and 112,679 patients with RCC (ie, involving the cecum, ...

A majority of dMMR colon cancers in our series are expected to be sporadic with inactivation of MLH1 in association with a dense pattern of DNA methylation near gene promoter regions termed the CpG ...