He’s not overweight, and he has always maintained a healthy lifestyle — clean diet, regular exercise, no smoking or drinking.

​Even more alarming, younger adults like Beran are often diagnosed at more advanced stages, when the disease is harder to treat and survival rates plummet. As a result, it’s now the deadliest cancer ...

Bret Hulick was in his second year of medical school at LECOM in Erie, analyzing the case of a 24-year-old colon cancer ...

The following is a summary of "Health Equity and Emergency Colorectal Surgery in the United States: A Scoping Review," ...

Minutes later, the diagnosis was official: the 34-year-old mother of three kids under 6 had Stage III colon cancer.

Shaedra Byrd thought her extreme weight loss was because she was being active with her kids. But after realizing she had lost ...

Background Laparoscopic procedure is a rapid developed technique in colorectal surgery. In this investigation we aim at assessing the diversities of short-term and medium-term clinical outcomes of ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Doctors at The Christ Hospital are now utilizing robotic surgery for colon cancer resections, a method that has shown to significantly improve healing and recovery times.

You might get only chemo if you can't have surgery. There are several kinds of chemo drugs used to treat stage IV colon cancer. You may get more than one of them. Sometimes, doctors combine chemo ...

This surgery "reverses" your temporary stoma ... which lasts about two to four weeks," says Ritha Belizaire, MD, general and colorectal surgeon at Houston Community Surgical, Houston, TX.

Similar results were found earlier by Burke et al. in a study of 186 patients undergoing colorectal surgery with and without bowel preparation. [12] Interestingly, in a similar prospective ...