The cornerstones of colon and rectal cancer treatment are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. For patients who have tumors with specific genetic traits or protein changes, doctors may also turn to ...

Bowel and intestinal surgeries used to be done through long cuts in the belly, which often meant a long, painful recovery. In the early 1990s, doctors started using a laparoscope, an instrument that ...

THE purpose of this paper is to advocate a more aggressive attitude toward the surgical treatment of diverticulitis of the colon, which in the past has usually been withheld until after complications ...

Are you bleeding while passing stools? Well, never ever ignore as a small blood drop may be an indication of colon cancer. However, if you visit the doctor at the earliest, even colon cancer can be ...

October 16, 2008 (San Francisco, California) — A novel sphincter-sparing surgical technique for the repair of perianal fistulas has demonstrated a 58% success rate in an American patient population.