Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer fare better with standard preoperative chemoradiation followed by surgery than with primary surgery and adjuvant chemoradiation, demonstrating better ...
SIOUX CITY | Last August, Gary Wood was lying on an operating room table at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's staring up at a network of robotic arms that reminded him of an octopus. Although the ...
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (WPVI) -- Doctors, medical oncologists, and other cancer experts from across the globe spent several days at Lankenau Medical Center, trying to find better approaches to rectal cancer.
Of 58 patients enrolled, all commenced chemotherapy and 56 proceeded to surgery. A total of 33/58 patients had tumor downstaging to ypT0/1N0/X on the surgery specimen, resulting in an ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who started adjuvant chemotherapy more than 6 weeks after colorectal cancer surgery achieved poorer DFS ...
Several risk factors put patients with colorectal cancer at increased risk of anastomotic leakage after elective surgery. Anastomotic leakage (AL) was associated with advanced age, presence of ...
Colon cancer can be prevented with screening because it’s highly treatable when caught early. The American Cancer Society recommends that adults without a family history should begin colorectal cancer ...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned colorectal surgeon Steven Wexner, MD, has joined MedStar Health as physician executive director and system chief of Colorectal Surgery. Dr.