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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Could you please recommend the best treatment for colon cancer after surgery, when only 1 out of 39 lymph nodes had cancerous cells? -- H.L. ANSWER: Surgery remains the primary way to ...

ctDNA testing post-surgery identifies high-risk stage 3 colon cancer patients more accurately than traditional staging methods. Detectable ctDNA correlates with a four- to six-fold increased risk of ...

A young mother battling colon cancer — highlighting the need for insurance-covered colonoscopies for younger patients — is now in desperate need of a liver transplant after enduring an extensive ...

"My doctor told me I needed a colonoscopy to check for colon cancer, but is that true?" Dr. Ashlee N. Godshalk Ruggles, a board certified, fellowship trained colorectal surgeon from Capital Health ...

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The surgery also brings new hope for patients with stage 4 colorectal cancer who have seen it spread to their liver. Kelli Podrez was higher on the transplant list but agreed to share the liver with ...

A new international study led by Mayo Clinic researchers has identified a genetic factor that may explain why some patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver experience more severe ...

Liver transplantation plus chemotherapy significantly improves overall survival in carefully selected patients with unresectable colorectal liver metastases compared with chemotherapy alone, according ...

The efficacy of watch and wait strategy or surgery after neoadjuvant immunotherapy for locally advanced colorectal cancer with dMMR/MSI-H guided by ctDNA dynamic monitoring (WINDOW): A single-center, ...

Eating food that lowers inflammation in the body may help people with advanced colon cancer survive longer, according to research presented at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in ...