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 ...

Usually the colostomy is temporary, until the colon or rectum heals. If the lower part of the rectum has been removed, the colostomy is permanent. When the two-stage operation is done, the time ...

Devylnn Cyr, 39, has separated from her husband, Greg Last year, doctors found out she had stage-three colon cancer during surgery They removed her uterus, which had a baseball-sized tumor ...

Together, the colon and rectum make up the large intestine. Colectomy is a type of colon surgery where the diseased portion of the colon is removed. Proctectomy removes part of the rectum, or all of ...

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 ...

major colonic surgery, laparoscopic colon surgery, robotic colon surgery, diagnostic and therapeutic colon and rectal surgery, and stomal care. Successful completion of this year qualifies the fellow ...

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 ...

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

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

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