An accurate new blood test for colon cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, has been reported.

A data analysis from a randomized clinical trial for stage 3 colon cancer patients found that patients with evidence of residual cancer in their blood after surgery to remove the cancer, may benefit ...

You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your tummy (abdomen). These are called the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. This is a ...

Radwah Oda was just 30 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer, an illness that seemed to come out of the blue. But looking back, she’d been experiencing symptoms for about a year without ...

That's when they discovered a "grapefruit-sized" tumor in his colon, he said. Lopez saw the scan and couldn't believe his eyes. Colon cancer? He was so young, healthy, and fit. Stories like Lopez ...

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

The lunar nodes aren’t planets. They are mathematical points in the sky that move in connection with the eclipse cycles. To put a finer point on it, the lunar nodes are where the moon’s orbit ...

During this procedure, a surgeon will remove the part of the colon that contains cancer, as well as some of the surrounding area. A surgeon may remove nearby lymph nodes to reduce the risk of ...

But there wasn’t a blockage, as she suspected. Instead, doctors discovered her colon had twisted on itself, which can become a life-threatening condition. Her colon had to be “unkinked ...