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.

Furthermore, 12 specimens of "normal" sigmoid colon that had been resected for carcinoma were measured. In none of these specimens was there complete obstruction, but the gut above the tumor was ...

Background: Signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) of the rectum and sigmoid colon is a rare and highly malignant challenge in clinical practice. Although high PD-1+CD8+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) ...

Mrs. Mississippi Plus America pageant winner Bryce Ramsey was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer ... a 5-centimeter polyp in her sigmoid colon, ... part of her colon after a tumor was ...

The sigmoid colon and its attachments can also stretch out as a person ages, researchers note. ... Dad, 41, shocked when stabbing back pain reveals tumor lurking in his spine.

In the new analysis, the median age of patients in the trial was 61 for those with right-sided tumors (the cecum and ascending colon); for patients with left-sided cancer, (the descending colon, ...

CARCINOMA of the rectosigmoid area of the colon is of ... To determine how far distally tumor might ... In a study of 90 patients subjected to anterior resection of the rectum or low sigmoid, ...

Background: Signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) of rectum and sigmoid colon is an extremely rare subtype of colorectal cancer (CRC) with very poor prognosis. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) ...

They cut out an 8-inch part of my colon out that encased the tumor and they put the colon back together. I was in recovery and then all hell broke loose. I started losing a lot of blood.

An 80-year-old woman with personal history of early-stage breast cancer, treated with lumpectomy and radiation 11 years ago, initially presented with lower gastrointestinal bleeding in June 2008.