Bowel resection for colorectal cancer, also called partial colectomy, removes the tumor. To make sure that only healthy tissue is left, the doctor removes a small amount of colon or rectum tissue on ...

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.

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The surgeon uses a flexible tube called a colonoscope to do the ...

to compare survival between patients with right-sided and left-sided colon cancers. A total of 77,978 patients who underwent surgical resection for a first primary adenocarcinoma of the colon were ...

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