Fitness trainer Samuel Richards, 23, lost 50 pounds due to ulcerative colitis, underwent colon removal surgery, and now lives with a hole in his stomach—bouncing back through perseverance.

A collision on a ski slope led to Liz Healy being diagnosed with two rare cancers. Two months later, she underwent a 10-hour ...

Strangers and friends have raised more than $150k for a man’s experimental life-saving cancer treatment after he found out ...

In patients with residual disease after curative resection of colorectal cancer, Lonsurf showed a numerical improvement in ...

Traditionally, chemotherapy was given after surgery (primary cytoreductive surgery (PCRS) and adjuvant chemotherapy). However, chemotherapy can be used before surgery (neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) ...

THE NHS in the Gwent region has become the first place in Wales to pilot a new non-invasive procedure for colon cancer. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) has started using the ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Anatomic Lung Resection Linked to Improved Survival for Early-Stage Lung Cancer. Published January 25, 2025. https://www.sts.org ...

A colostomy is when part of the colon is used to create a stoma. They are similar in that they are both surgeries wherein stool leaves the body through a stoma, a part of the body brought outside of ...

There is no single treatment for colon cancer, and options may include immunotherapy, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. The aim of treatment will be to remove the cancer, prevent its ...

Scientists hope the findings could spare people who are at much lower risk from the stress of needing regular colonoscopies or undergoing surgery to remove the colon. Professor Ailsa Hart ...

Christopher Seder, M.D., from the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and colleagues analyzed data from 32,340 patients undergoing lung resection surgery for stage IA NSCLC from 346 U.S ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...