From intensifying therapy in ctDNA-positive bladder cancer to scaling it back in ctDNA-negative colon cancer, new data from ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)—genetic material shed from tumors into the bloodstream—may help risk-stratify patients with ...

Recurrent and re-operative colon surgery is a procedure that is performed when cancer in the colon has returned after initial treatment or when a previous colorectal surgery was unsuccessful. This ...

At first glance, colorectal surgery and med-spas don’t seem to go together, but they are complementary when under the expert care of Dr. Anna Toker, a colon and rectal surgeon specializing in robotic ...

Most people with colon cancer begin treatment by having surgery to remove their cancer. If colon cancer has spread beyond your colon, you might have chemotherapy first. This can help treat cancer ...

Median disease-free survival (DFS) increased from 4.8 months with placebo to 9.9 months with adjuvant atezolizumab (Tecentriq ...

The researchers behind a new Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial have suggested that giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery can reduce the risk of disease recurrence by more ...

P. Marco Fisichella, MD, of Loyola University Health System in Chicago is treating patients with conditions such as diverticulitis using a laparoscopic surgery technique, which can help patients ...

The following are the standardized infection ratios — observed to expected infection rates — for surgical site infections from colon surgery for every state and Washington, D.C. SIRs that are less ...

This bowel-saving surgery is nothing to sneeze at. Surgeons have successfully placed part of a Florida man’s colon back into his body after it fell out following a forceful sneeze. The 63-year-old was ...

In a randomized trial, 1 day of octreotide infusion combined with endoscopic therapy proved noninferior to 5 days for acute ...