Most people with colon cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If colon cancer has spread beyond your colon, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat cancer ...

Exero Medical, a medical technology company developing monitoring solutions for post-operative care, today reported positive results from its pivotal clinical study of the company's FDA ...

This bowel-saving surgery is nothing to sneeze at. Surgeons have successfully placed part of a Florida man’s colon back into his body after it fell out following a forceful sneeze. The 63-year-old was ...

“Aspirin is a drug that is readily available globally and extremely inexpensive compared to many modern cancer drugs, which is very positive,” says Anna Martling.

A short burst of immunotherapy before surgery is delivering surprisingly powerful results for a specific type of colorectal ...

Molecular/genomic profiling is expanding precision selection of systemic therapy and may enable immunotherapy-driven organ ...

Low anterior resection (LAR) surgery treats colorectal cancer. Sometimes, the surgery is elective. Other times, it is an emergency procedure surgeons may perform for advanced-stage cancer. Surgeons ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think "surgery." And it's true that surgery plays a central role in treatment for ...

Valley woman encourages colon cancer screening after her own diagnosis took 10 years. Doctors kept telling her she was too ...

Colon cancer surgery may be safely delayed up to 49 days. Read more on survival and prehabilitation implications.

These physicians treat diseases of the intestinal tract, colon and rectum. Laila Rashidi, M.D.: anorectal disorders, minimally invasive surgery; MultiCare colon and rectal surgery, Allenmore Medical ...