“The rectum is different than the sigmoid colon,” she explains. “Each of these regions has a somewhat different biology and predilection to tumor formation.” Alexandrov and Sears agree ...

Ischemic bowel disease, also known as ischemic colitis, is a condition where the blood flow to the large intestine is reduced and the colon wall is inflamed. This can be caused by various factors ...

Experts published a new study on Wednesday that found a rise in colorectal cancer in young adults could be linked to an increased exposure to a gut toxin that has been tied to the disease for decades.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sigmoid colon is instrumental in the final stages of digestion, serving as the last stop before waste is eliminated from the body. Optimizing its function can result in smoother bowel ...

A potential benefit for high-dose vitamin D3 was observed for patients with left-sided disease (i.e., primary tumors that arise in the descending colon, sigmoid colon, or rectum) and requires ...

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 ...

A phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fruquintinib combined with tislelizumab and hepatic artery infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) for advanced colorectal cancer liver metastases: An ...

in the sigmoid colon with extra luminal feces, free air (arrow), and fecaloma (*) with luminal dilatation and posterior wall thickening (double arrow) in the rectum, which is suggestive of stercoral ...