Q: I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, which caused a bowel perforation. I had a sigmoidectomy, no problem, and a resection.

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A few months ago, John Mykytyshyn was in a coma his doctors didn’t think he’d wake from. A few days ago, he went to his son’s ...

The 2025 ASTRO annual meeting featured a prostate cancer radiation toxicity session and a presentation by Dr. Young Suk Kwon discussing an EPIC-26 longitudinal analyses of prostatic urethral lift ...

If you adopt a healthier lifestyle after bowel screening, it can lower your risk of both bowel cancer and other chronic ...

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

Intuitive Surgical’s ISRG second-quarter 2025 update placed a spotlight on the expanding clinical scope of its Single-Port (SP) platform, with colorectal surgery emerging as a key frontier. The ...

A new international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has identified a genetic factor that may explain why some patients ...

Pastorino and colleagues noted that defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging for two reasons: It ...

Low-dose aspirin significantly reduced colorectal cancer recurrence in genetically defined patients. A team of researchers led by Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has demonstra ...

Emergency presentations (EPs) in colorectal cancer (CRC) are common and associated with worse outcomes; many are potentially ...