A mum-of-two has detailed how a change in her toilet habits revealed she had developed a “deadly” cancer that is on the rise ...

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center has earned its fourth consecutive C grade in patient safety from a national nonprofit ...

Depending on tumor location, presurgical radiation can improve overall survival, but that option comes with an increased risk ...

The prostate is a gland, often described as walnut-sized, which sits under the bladder in those assigned male at birth. The ...

Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) continues to pose a clinical and commercial challenge, with low 5-year survival rates and limited durable respons ...

“Surgical resection can be complicated and risky ... "We're seeing more and more young patients, particularly with rectal cancer, whereas ...standard therapy is very morbid in terms of ...

Courtesy of Marcus Wendling, Rectal cancer is becoming more common in ... Due to the location of the tumor, Wendling needed a lower anterior resection. The five-plus-hour surgery, which involves ...

Avoiding surgery for rectal cancer, Sarah Rack of Memphis traveled to Houston for ... “Depending on the organs involved and what the surgical pathway would have looked like, surgical resection can ...

Further research is needed to evaluate long-term outcomes, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of robotic APR in rectal cancer treatment. Laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection had worse short ...

Rectal cancer diagnoses account for nearly one-third ... whether patients can be considered instead for upfront surgical resection or the selective omission of neoadjuvant radiation therapy.

Traditionally, rectal cancer surgery has involved either a low anterior resection – removing the part of the rectum containing the cancer and reconnecting the remaining part of the rectum to the colon ...