Jenna Scott said doctors chalked up her abdominal cramping to pregnancy symptoms or IBS. It took a year to get diagnosed with ...

Now, five years later, not only has Spill carried another baby – giving ... through radiation or surgery.” Spill said she hopes other young adults with rectal cancer ask their providers ...

2. Radiotherapy alone and Radiotherapy combined with Chemotherapy both Enable Patients to avoid surgery for Rectal Cancer The STAR-TREC study (2) has shown that organ-preserving strategies are ...

I felt like I won the lottery!” Dr. Cerek reported that “20% of non-rectal cancer patients” who still had to undergo surgery “saw lower rates of cancer recurrence." She said this suggests ...

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 ...

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 ...

A promising new study presented at the American Association for Cancer ... surgery. These drugs work by boosting the body's natural ability to detect and destroy cancer cells. Among patients with ...

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 ...

Three of the 12 lymph nodes removed during surgery tested positive, so Wendling’s rectal cancer was declared Stage 3. As if that wasn’t bad enough, he had a rocky hospital stay. He spiked a ...

For rectal cancer, laparoscopic MIS peaked in 2014 at 37.2% of procedures but rates of robotic-assisted surgery continued to increase, comprising 48.8% of procedures by 2020 (vs 5.5% in 2010 and ...

It was Stage 3 rectal cancer that had already spread to her lymph nodes. At the time of diagnosis, she had a 7-month old baby, a 2-year ... she underwent surgery to remove her rectum, the ...