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 ...

Laparoscopic surgery can lead to adhesions, which are post-surgical scars. Adhesions can lead to problems like abdominal pain, infertility, or bowel obstruction several years after the surgery. If a ...

aDivision of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea bDivision of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, ...

New Guidelines Address Bariatric Surgery in Children A 12-member pediatric hepatology panel advises bariatric surgery in 'carefully selected' pediatric patients as a way to fend off chronic fatty ...

When colon and rectal cancer spread to another part of the body it is called metastatic or advanced bowel cancer. A team of doctors and other professionals discuss the best treatment and care for you.

Conclusively, current medical and surgical therapy of acute diverticulitis is effective ... to be higher in patients undergoing emergency surgery than those treated conservatively, this finding ...

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 ...

Dec. 23, 2024 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking technology that can treat colon cancer by converting cancer cells into a state resembling normal colon cells without killing them ...