A study found that a blood test detecting ctDNA after surgery more accurately predicts recurrence and survival in patients with stage 3 colon cancer.

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 ...

1 in 5 people being diagnosed with colorectal cancer are under age 55.

Recurrent and re-operative colon surgery is a procedure that is performed when cancer in the colon has returned after initial treatment or when a previous colorectal surgery was unsuccessful. This ...

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 ...

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...

New research in the January 2023 issue of Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that immunotherapy from immune checkpoint (PD-1) inhibitors prior to surgery was strikingly ...

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 ...

This bowel-saving surgery is nothing to sneeze at. Surgeons have successfully placed part of a Florida man’s colon back into his body after it fell out following a forceful sneeze. The 63-year-old was ...

Traditionally, treatment for colorectal cancer meant surgery, often leaving patients with a colostomy bag for life. But Patty ...

Mohammad Samad's stage 3 colon cancer was misdiagnosed as stress, IBS, and Crohn's disease.