Patients in a structured exercise program experienced a 37% lower risk of death and a 28% reduction in recurrence or ...

Many people can have polyps and, like Andy, have no symptoms. A polyp can take as many as 10 to 15 years to develop into ...

A 56-year-old man from Lebanon died from an extremely rare and aggressive form of colon cancer after suffering subtle ...

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. Unintentional ...

The tumor measured 3.5 cm. in diameter, and the resected bowel was 30 cm. long. The lymph nodes were negative, and the tumor was Grade III. The temporary colostomy was subsequently closed.

I remember they came in to talk to me and that's when they confirmed it's stage 4 colorectal cancer. And then they told he removed my entire tumor from my sigmoid colon, reconnected my colon.

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.

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an intermediate tumor composed of differentiated myofibroblastic spindle cells with inflammatory cell infiltration. It can occur in all parts of the body, ...

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) ...

Article citations More>> Meloro, B.A., DeStefano, L.M. and Ramachandra, P. (2018) Adenocarcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon as a Lead Point for Colocolic Intussusception. ACS Case Reviews in Surgery, 2, ...

In healthy people, the colon looks like a U-shaped tube that is about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long. It makes up one-fifth of the length of the digestive tract, which begins at the mouth and ends at ...