Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

This operation removes a diseased section of the rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use it to treat the following conditions: Cancers of the colon and rectum Some types of noncancerous growths in ...

Compared to stool DNA testing, researchers found that CT colonography is a cost-saving and clinically effective method for ...

Her colon had to be “unkinked” during an emergency colonoscopy, Grenham says, then shortened to prevent it from happening again. The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine nearest ...

They will insert the sigmoidoscope through the rectum and pass it into your sigmoid colon. The doctor will use a small amount of air to expand the colon to see the colon walls. You may feel mild ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon, the part of the large intestine that connects to the rectum. The Hamilton ...

She had undergone vaginal reconstruction with a sigmoid-colon autotransplant at the age of 25 years because of congenital vaginal agenesis. She had never smoked and was not taking any drugs.

It is about 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in) long. The descending colon stores stool before this moves to the next compartment — the sigmoid colon. This is the last part of the colon. It looks like an ...