Summerville Medical Center recently marked a major milestone in its minimally invasive robotic surgery program, performing ...

Colon cancer, on the other hand ... especially since the sigmoid colon and rectum lie just behind the urinary bladder, which sits directly above the prostate. Consequently, cancer in either ...

Cancer is cruel. It doesn’t care that you’re only 37, that you're the mother of a little girl who is your entire world. So Elissa vowed to fight.

"If it weren't dismissed as 'just period pain' and women being dramatic, people would realize how terrible it is," Dr. Irene Woo said.

The development of PSC in IBD patients is rare but is associated with elevated risks of colorectal cancer ... eight biopsies were collected from the sigmoid colon. Participants with active ...

An episode of complicated diverticulitis had been treated with sigmoid colectomy and partial ... and her niece had received a diagnosis of colorectal cancer at 40 years of age.

Many of us tend to overlook the importance of the colon, or large intestine, compared to organs like the liver, kidneys, and ...

People with permanent colostomies whose opening is in the descending or sigmoid portion of the colon are good candidates for irrigation. This is because their stools tend to be more formed.