As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning ...

A three-year exercise program improved survival in colon cancer patients and kept disease at bay, a first-of-its-kind ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon, the part of the large intestine that connects to the rectum. The Hamilton ...

This operation removes a diseased section of the rectum and sigmoid colon. Doctors use it to treat the following conditions: Cancers of the colon and rectum Some types of noncancerous growths in ...

Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

Her colon had to be “unkinked” during an emergency colonoscopy, Grenham says, then shortened to prevent it from happening again. The sigmoid colon — the part of the large intestine nearest ...

They are most common in the lower portion of the large intestine (called the sigmoid colon). Diverticulosis is very common and occurs in 10% of people over age 40 and in 50% of people over age 60.

It can affect the entire colon, but it most often affects a part of the colon called the sigmoid. Experts do not know what causes a redundant colon. Part of what defines the condition is that it ...

The exam revealed that she had a 5-centimeter polyp in her sigmoid colon, the section of the colon that connects to the rectum. Shortly thereafter, doctors removed 3 feet of her colon and 13 lymph ...

Colovesical fistulas, which form between the colon and the bladder, are rare occurrences. The colovesical fistula is the most frequent and usually develops between the sigmoid colon and the ...