Colorectal Surgery with Transanal Excision procedure is an option for patients needing colon or rectal removal. In this procedure, the surgeon removes the colon or rectum and the surrounding tissue ...

Our surgeons have unique expertise in some of the newest, most innovative, minimally-invasive surgical procedures to treat gastrointestinal cancers, including cancers of the stomach, small intestine, ...

Most people have surgery for colon cancer that hasn't spread. The operation you have depends on the position of the cancer in the bowel. This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the ...

Gastroenterologists do not perform surgery but are qualified to perform ... Both can perform procedures like colonoscopy and polyp removal, but only colorectal surgeons are qualified to perform ...

A doctor explained why you have unexpected diarrhoea after getting that gallbladder removal surgery. It has to do with the ...

Melissa Hubbard underwent surgery to remove part of her colon. What she didn’t know until afterward was that her ovaries were ...

Another example of preventive surgery is colon removal (prophylactic colectomy) for familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). FAP is an inherited condition where hundreds or thousands of colon polyps form ...

An Anderson, South Carolina, man wants to tell everyone his health care story and the need to get a second opinion.

After facing life-threatening complications and failed surgeries in Ethiopia, a 38-year-old man successfully underwent a ...