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 ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection for colorectal cancer, also called partial colectomy, removes the tumor. To make sure that only ...

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 ...

Sandra Sultzer went into surgery at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital in September 2021 to treat her colon cancer. Surgeons there were using the da Vinci surgical robot, a freestanding ...

A drug that has been described as a "gamechanger" when it comes to cancer ... colorectal tumors, effectively curing the cancer, doctors said at a conference — meaning the need for surgery ...

A data analysis from a randomized clinical trial for stage 3 colon cancer patients found that patients with evidence of residual cancer in their blood after surgery to remove the cancer, may benefit ...

How you feel after your bowel (colon) cancer operation depends on what type of surgery you have. After a big operation, you might wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) ...