Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel resection can be done for many diseases that affect the colon, such as colorectal ...
Chemoradiotherapy and surgical resection are important elements of multimodality treatment for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. The optimum sequence of these modalities has been ...
Nonprotruding lesions can be removed by the endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR ... detection and minimal-invasive treatment of early colorectal neoplasia and precancers. However, the fundamental ...
Liver resection is recommended to treat some types of cancer originating in the liver ... It may also be recommended to treat certain cases of cancer that started in other organs that have ...
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued today an updated clinical guideline for physicians who use radiation therapy to treat patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. This ...