The tumor can be any size. It may or may not include affected lymph nodes. Get information about treatments for stage IV colon cancer. Rectal cancer is staged much the same way as colon cancer ...

Stage 3 (3A, 3B, 3C): The cancer has grown into the rectal wall and has spread to the lymph nodes nearby. Stage 4 (4A, 4B): The cancer has spread to organs away from the rectum such as the liver or ...

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 ...

Participants all had stage 2 or 3 rectal adenocarcinoma. This means that their cancer had spread to the lymph nodes but that their tumors had not metastasized. In addition, all of the patients ...

Robotic surgery for rectal cancer is gaining popularity ... 7.1%; 95% CI, 6 to 0.5) and more lymph nodes harvested (median, 15 vs. 14; P = .004). Much debate and discussion continues regarding ...

Disease recurrence developed in only five patients across both cohorts: One person with rectal cancer saw their tumor regrow, and the other four had recurrence only in the lymph nodes. Although 65 ...

One example is the radical mastectomy, Recht said, where surgeons once removed not only the breast but also the chest wall muscles and nearby lymph nodes ... is in rectal cancer, where modern ...