This trial is looking at an MRI scan before surgery to improve treatment for cancer in a part of the bowel called the sigmoid colon. Skip to main content. Together we are beating cancer. Donate. About ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and ...

The use of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, ... MRI may make colon cancer screening more tolerable. By Reuters. August 14, 2007 10:02 PM UTC Updated August 15, 2007 ...

In this case, a gadolinium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ... extending anteriorly and obliquely adjacent to the sigmoid colon (Figures 3a, 3b). Although extravasation was not shown, ...

Just when she thought life couldn’t get busier, New Jersey mom of six Elaine Griffin got diagnosed with Stage 2b colon cancer. “I was very shocked, and I think the doctors were as well because ...

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 ...

Colorectal cancer may be treated with a laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection, an operation in which the anus, rectum, and sigmoid colon are removed and a colostomy performed. Learn more from WebMD.

Some people have a sigmoid colon that’s a bit longer than usual, which is a normal variation in human anatomy, she adds. “I was always told I had a long colon,” Grenham recalls.

Similar measurements were made of the various layers of the sigmoid colon in 20 additional specimens that had been resected for chronic ulcerative colitis but in which there were no strictures.

This trial is looking at an MRI scan before surgery to improve treatment for cancer in a part of the bowel called the sigmoid colon. Skip to main content. Together we are beating cancer. Donate. About ...