Effect of weight, obesity, and other co-morbidities on mortality of colon cancer patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not ...

Early safety data from the RELARC trial showed complete mesocolic excision doesn’t increase intraoperative and postoperative complications of laparoscopic right hemicolectomy compared with D2 ...

Organ index of immunological and anti-tumor effect of intratumor injection of penicillin sodium combined with chemotherapy drug for tumor-bearing mice. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ...

Nowadays laparoscopic right hemicolectomy is widely accepted as the standard of care for benign and malignant colon disease. There are wide variations among laparoscopic techniques. One of the most ...

For patients with colon cancer, laparoscopic colectomy has been associated with early recovery and quality-of-life benefits compared with open colectomy; however, long-term outcome data on tumor ...

The last two decades were marked by continuous efforts of surgeons to minimize perioperative trauma. Minimally invasive techniques and the technology attributed to them are quickly gaining a strong ...

This study of immediate outcome after a commonly performed surgical gastrointestinal procedure showed no early advantage for robotic compared with laparoscopic surgery. The study was performed in the ...

Laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder is widely employed, yet the extension of laparoscopic approaches to other intra-abdominal surgeries has been slower. An early surgical case series reported ...

The staged approach to colectomy offers survival benefits, and it may help avoid unnecessary procedures that only require appendectomy. Muhammad Talha Waheed, MD, a postdoctoral research fellow at ...

This procedure involves removing a portion of the large intestine and creating an ileostomy to redirect human waste. People will likely need to adjust their diet after surgery. People with colon ...