Shannin Desroches fought for a diagnosis after being dismissed. Now she tells PEOPLE that she's been given a 5% chance of ...

Chloe Wakelin says her cancer symptoms were initially dismissed as a stomach bug that she picked up at her job as a daycare ...

You’ll have a bag that attaches to the ostomy to collect bowel movements. During operations for rectal cancer, your surgeon will try to cut out any tissue affected by cancer without removing the ...

An ostomy is a surgically created opening on your abdomen to drain stool. It is the end of the intestine that can be seen on the skin of your belly. There are two types of ostomies: ileostomy and ...

Canadian Cancer Society reports draw attention to the disease’s financial burden on patients, which includes the toll of ...

You might need ostomy surgery when a digestive disorder, cancer, or other condition affects your bowel or bladder in a way ...

Evaluation of health disparities in colorectal cancer. • Examining the role of health literacy in surgical disparities. • Developing interventions to improve outcomes in new ostomy patients. • Solicit ...

due to the cancer's spread. She was fitted with a stoma in her stomach, which provides an external way for waste to leave the body, where it’s collected in an ostomy bag. Related: James Van Der ...