Colon cancer treatment is personalized based on stage, overall health and tumor characteristics. Early detection and accurate ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery was found to be more effective in harvesting lymph nodes compared with conventional surgery with similar outcomes. Surgery is the most prevalent treatment for colon ...

Safety and Toxicity Analysis of Oxaliplatin Combined With Fluorouracil or as a Single Agent in Patients With Previously Treated Advanced Colorectal Cancer Purpose: To determine the relationship, in ...

Caecal cancer and ascending colon cancer had slower rates of metastasis to main nodes compared with transverse colon cancer. Routine prophylactic extended lymphadenectomy for the superior mesenteric ...

Efficiency of Colorectal Cancer Care Among Veterans: Analysis of Treatment Wait Times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers We used the 1988 to 2009 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program ...

Lymph node evaluations for colon cancer increased markedly from 1988-2008, according to a Journal of American Medical Association report. Evaluations at a level of 12 lymph nodes or more rose from ...

GUCY2C can be used to detect occult metastases, according to JAMA paper. The presence of guanylyl cyclase 2C (GUCY2C) in regional lymph nodes is an independent predictor of disease recurrence in ...

New data indicate that nonoperative surveillance after removing a malignant colorectal polyp can achieve high rates of rectal ...

Staging means finding out how far colon cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group colon cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the ...

When she was crowned Mrs. Mississippi Plus America last year, Bryce Ramsey immediately knew what her platform would be. “Hands down, colon cancer awareness,” Ramsey, 39, told The Post. “At the time, I ...