Minimally invasive surgery is a gold standard approach to surgery for colorectal cancer, says Luke Martin, MD. Dr. Martin is a colon and rectal surgeon at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI). He explains ...

Patients with locally advanced rectal cancer fare better with standard preoperative chemoradiation followed by surgery than with primary surgery and adjuvant chemoradiation, demonstrating better ...

Colorectal surgery involves resection, or removal, of parts of the colon, rectum or both, to remove cancer. Surgery is most effective when the tumor is diagnosed before it has spread to other parts of ...

SIOUX CITY | Last August, Gary Wood was lying on an operating room table at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's staring up at a network of robotic arms that reminded him of an octopus. Although the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who started adjuvant chemotherapy more than 6 weeks after colorectal cancer surgery achieved poorer DFS ...

Of 58 patients enrolled, all commenced chemotherapy and 56 proceeded to surgery. A total of 33/58 patients had tumor downstaging to ypT0/1N0/X on the surgery specimen, resulting in an ...

ISTANBUL, TR / ACCESS Newswire / November 25, 2025 / Robotic surgery is transforming the landscape of modern medicine. With ...

Anastomotic leakage is a critical complication of colorectal surgery, occurring in up to 28% of patients. Previous reports have shown that ICG fluorescence imaging reduces the incidence of anastomotic ...

Integrating music therapy with anesthesia recovery care enhances recovery in colorectal cancer patients, reducing ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- World-renowned colorectal surgeon Steven Wexner, MD, has joined MedStar Health as physician executive director and system chief of Colorectal Surgery. Dr.