Traditionally, chemotherapy was given after surgery (primary cytoreductive surgery (PCRS) and adjuvant chemotherapy). However, chemotherapy can be used before surgery (neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) ...

SANG W. LEE PROCTOLOGY Clinical Professor; Chief, Colon and Rectal Surgery Keck Medicine of USC Dr. Sang Lee is one of the ...

A comprehensive molecular and clinical study of patients with young-onset CRC. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a ...

Bowel habits vary from person to person. However, sudden changes can indicate an underlying health condition, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For some ...

She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this month at a New York nursing home, was remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers ...

A nutritionist has urged the public to up their intake of 10 foods that she says are vital for reducing the risk of deadly colon cancer. Incidences of the disease, which kills 17,000 per year in ...

The first treatment for colon cancer is usually surgery to remove a section of the colon. This is called a partial colectomy. Most often, doctors can reconnect the separated sections of the colon ...

In a TikTok that’s racked up 2.3 million views, Radwah Oda — who is now battling stage 4 colon cancer while working at her office job — broke down the five symptoms she ignored and explained ...

Emily King of Mobile, Alabama, was diagnosed with colon cancer five years ago at the age of 27. She had experienced some diarrhea, abdominal pain and anemia, but having cancer had never entered ...

"The barber had gone through a similar situation and instead of getting the resection ... to take the polyp out and leave the colon intact.The surgery was a success, and Lumkin made a good ...

The surgery was otherwise successful ... was diagnosed at age 50 with metastatic colon cancer and died a few years later. She said she can think of of nearly a dozen more nurses off the top ...