At 26, David Lyon had never had a health problem other than tearing a muscle while playing sports. So he wasn’t particularly alarmed when he saw a bit of blood in the toilet bowl when he had a bowel ...

A risky but often lifesaving surgery that removes damaged parts of the small intestine can leave patients facing a new threat: serious liver damage with no available treatment. Now, scientists have ...

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 ...

Approximately 25% of patients with colorectal cancer present with metastatic disease to the liver at diagnosis, and about 50% develop liver metastases at some point during the course of the disease.

When parts of the small intestine are diseased or die, the treatment can involve surgically removing the affected tissue. Although lifesaving, the procedure - referred to as a radical small bowel ...

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 ...

One of Australia’s largest real-world studies of advanced bowel cancer in younger adults has found important differences ...

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, ...

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