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 ...

Liz Healy had a skiing accident so doctors ordered scans. Results showed cancer. She has fought the disease and is about to ...

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 ...

At first glance, colorectal surgery and med-spas don’t seem to go together, but they are complementary when under the expert care of Dr. Anna Toker, a colon and rectal surgeon specializing in robotic ...

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 ...

“ur finding enables the safe discontinuation of follow-up after 6 years, leading to an improvement in quality of life and a reduction in health care system costs,” study researchers wrote.

Colon cancer recurrence risk falls below 0.5% at 6 years post-surgery, offering a practical benchmark for defining cure, according to new research.

Patients who have undergone surgery for colorectal cancer experience fewer serious complications and fewer readmissions when ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In patients who have undergone surgery for colorectal cancer, monitoring levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the weeks after the operation can provide prognostic information.