For the hundreds of thousands of people who undergo sphincter-preserving surgery for rectal cancer each year, saving the ...

Tampere University Hospital has introduced high-dose-rate contact brachytherapy for rectal cancer, aiming to eradicate tumors ...

When someone is diagnosed with colorectal cancer—which includes both colon and rectal cancers—many people immediately think "surgery." And it's true that surgery plays a central role in treatment for ...

I was hospitalized for the first time in my life for colon cancer surgery—it was okay to say, 'I'm scared'In my previous ...

A UK trial swapped standard chemotherapy for a short course of pembrolizumab, and none of the 32 patients has relapsed.

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Patients with a specific type of bowel cancer who were treated with a short course of immunotherapy before surgery instead of post-op chemotherapy have remained cancer-free after almost three years of ...

Laparoscopic or ‘keyhole’ surgery is a safe, effective way of removing bowel tumours and should be offered to all patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer, according to researchers from the ...

At 26, David Lyon had never had a health problem other than tearing a muscle while playing sports. So he wasn’t particularly alarmed when he saw a bit of blood in the toilet bowl when he had a bowel ...

Woman survived colon cancer three times after being diagnosed in her teens, 20s and 30s. She shares her symptoms and how ...

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