Surgery may be an option to manage ulcerative colitis when treatment with medication and lifestyle changes isn’t effective, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a survey of 1,535 colon cancer survivors under 50 by the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, 82% said they were first misdiagnosed ...

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 ...

MedStar Health taps system surgery chief Steven Wexner as executive director and system chief of colorectal surgery, based in Columbia, Md.

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 ...

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 ...

Steven Wexner, MD, has joined Columbia, Mo.-based Medstar Health as physician executive director and system chief of colorectal surgery. According to a Nov. 4 news release, Dr. Wexner will be based at ...

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 ...