Helena Corbett has been called an inspiration by a consultant from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust ...

In this week's On the Record, Todd McDermott discusses surgery and treatments available for colon and rectal cancer patients.

Right after the operation, you will have what doctors call an indwelling catheter, meaning the surgeon ... They can remind you of how to take care of your stoma, ostomy, or pouch.

He said: “These results should encourage wider adoption of contact X-ray brachytherapy as part of standard care for ... which would mean that I’d have to live with a stoma for the rest of ...

Chris Lopez was the youngest colon cancer patient his oncologist had ever treated. At 29, Chris was 16 years younger than the ...

He said: “These results should encourage wider adoption of contact X-ray brachytherapy as part of standard care for eligible patients ... which would mean that I’d have to live with a stoma for the ...

The 21 year veteran of NBC 7 San Diego got a shocking diagnosis of colorectal cancer and shares her journey from diagnosis to ...

As Sam was taken to a special premature baby care unit that October 2011 ... She was also fitted with an emergency colostomy, or stoma - an opening made through the abdominal wall that connects ...

All humans have the BRCA genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2). You inherit one from each of your parents, and if one parent has a mutation ...

Sharon, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, said: “I was faced with the possibility of surgery, which would mean that I’d have to live with a stoma for the ... part of standard care for eligible ...