Colon cancer surgery takes about 3 hours but can range from 2 to 8 hours. It depends on how much of the colon your doctor needs to remove and if they perform an open or laparoscopic colectomy.

St. Joseph's Health Hospital has recently introduced the da Vinci Single-Port robot system, which allows for smaller ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. ... If you have open surgery, your incision wound may take 10 to 14 days to heal.

A Las Vegas hospital joins an FDA clinical trial to confirm the safety and feasibility of using a new, single-incision technology in a variety of colorectal surgeries. VIEW E-EDITION 25¢ for 3 mos ...

While effective and safe, it only allowed for a large incision in the body to remove the tumor. As recently as 20 years ago, the main method doctors used to remove colon and rectal tumors was ...

“We are able to make much smaller incisions and do everything that we would normally go through a large, you know, 15-inch incision through a small 3/8 of an inch incision and people are getting ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Doctors at The Christ Hospital are now utilizing robotic surgery for colon cancer resections, a method that has shown to significantly improve healing and recovery times. Dr ...

Virtual Incision announces MIRA’s clinical trial results will be presented at the 2023 ASCRS scientific meeting.

Background: Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is increasingly being embraced in the medical community due to its potential to offer less-invasiveness and quick recovery. This multi-center ...