In the days leading up to your colonoscopy, you may want to eat and avoid certain foods to ensure the procedure is as ...

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 ...

Why Do People Get a Colonoscopy for Ulcerative Colitis? Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation and sores to form in the large intestine and rectum. It ...

Commonwealth Health Physician Network announced William Auriemma, M.D. — a member of the medical staff at Regional Hospital of Scranton — joined its provider team and is now accepting new patients in ...

Colonoscopy screening exams that are recommended for older U.S. adults failed to reduce the risk of death from colon cancer in a 10-year study that questions the benefits of the common procedure.

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

A short course of immunotherapy given before surgery eliminated detectable colon cancer in a majority of patients whose tumors lacked a key DNA repair mechanism, according to results published in the ...

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David Lampl, a scuba diver by trade, faced sharks but never imagined facing colon cancer at 42. “I had zero symptoms. You would never, ever known anything was wrong or different,” David says. His mom ...

A study has found that the risk of developing dyslipidemia after surgery for colorectal cancer varies depending on where the ...