Laparoscopic Colon Surgery Means Faster Recovery for Some Cancer Patients If colorectal cancer is found through screening, surgery is quickly scheduled to remove the tumor. The standard open surgery ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have colon surgery at high-volume hospitals are more likely than patients at smaller ones to go straight home for recovery without needing special care, ...

An anastomosis from colon surgery can take several weeks to fully heal. Checking in with your care team is important, as problems such as anastomotic leakage need immediate attention. If a section of ...

A recent study published in JAMA Surgery demonstrated the cost savings an enhanced recovery program can produce in colon cancer surgery, according to a Pain Medicine News report. The study examined ...

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 ...

A perforated bowel is a serious condition, and immediate action such as surgery needs to be taken to prevent infection and death. Bacteria and stool from the bowel can spill into the abdominal cavity, ...

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 ...

It's well documented; a colonoscopy is one of the only procedures in the medical field that can not only detect cancer but prevent cancer. That's by finding and removing questionable polyps before ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...