His lab focuses on making better models of rectal ... care of anal cancer patients. And yet the reality is that most of the time, we can avoid the colorectal surgeons doing surgery, but their ...

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 ...

Colorectal Surgeon Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar, MD, PhD (seated) with nurse Kieran Kelleher BSN-RN. Dr. Garcia-Aguilar and the colorectal service at MSK are experts at the watch and wait approach to ...

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 ...

Rectal cancer is relatively common, with about 46,220 new cases diagnosed in the United States each year (27,330 in men and 18,890 in women), according to the American Cancer Society.

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients ...

Maybe radiation, chemotherapy or surgery. Doctors can detect colon and rectal cancers during the same screening but then they attack them in distinct ways. “Our approach to rectal cancer ...

The new technology, called Iris, guides surgeons during robotic rectal cancer surgery, which makes the procedure more effective and accurate for patients undergoing treatment. Iris converts MRI ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can spare many patients with rectal cancer from invasive surgery that can carry lifelong side effects, new research indicates. The findings, from UVA Cancer Center ...

“Our results suggest that trying to save the anal sphincter in patients with distal rectal cancer whose tumors do not respond to neoadjuvant therapy may compromise recurrence-free survival.” Sphincter ...

found that the immunotherapy treatment worked against not only advanced rectal cancer but other cancer types too, allowing patients to avoid surgery and other types of more invasive treatment to ...