Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

Surgeons report that patients with tumors on the right side may benefit from greater lymph node harvest during their operations. Patients with colorectal cancer tumors on the right side may have ...

In colon cancer, location is important. Evidence is building up to show a significant difference in survival when malignancies emerge on the right side of the colon compared with those that arise on ...

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The surgical outcomes of colon cancer vary with its anatomical location. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy can aid in improving the postsurgical outcomes of both right and left colon cancer, decreasing the ...

Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Portland, Maine, September 11, 1931.

"Understanding the rates of false-positives and false-negatives in lymph node assessment allows for better-informed surgical decision-making. This contributes to determining the extent of LN ...

Removing more lymph nodes during surgical resection could help improve survival rates among patients with right-sided colorectal cancer, according to research presented at the 2018 American College of ...

ORLANDO (July 23, 2018): Patients with colorectal cancer tumors on the right side may have poorer five-year survival rates than those whose tumors are located on the left side. However, a new ...