Masashi Ozaki, also known as Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, a well-known Japanese golfer has died from colon cancer, aged 78. But what is sigmoid colon cancer, and why is it often fatal? Let's take a look ...

A new definition of rectal cancer in the Netherlands prompted reclassification of cancer as sigmoid tumors, which could lead to better treatment. Rectal and sigmoidal tumors have been hard to ...

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 ...

A randomized controlled trial of adults in Norway found that a single screening sigmoidoscopy led to a sustained reduction in ...

Incidence rates for anal cancer in the United States: 1980-2009. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2013 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — While most young, healthy people assume cancer is something they don't need to worry about until later in life, doctors are seeing an alarming trend with more and more young people ...

The introduction of bowel cancer screening, in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and many other Western countries, has provided considerable interest and no little diagnostic consternation ...

Dear Doctors: I am considering having sigmoid surgery. Five years ago, I had pancreatic cancer. I have also had multiple episodes of diverticulitis. Is there any information about how common post-op ...

We performed a histologic, molecular, and immunophenotypic analysis of patients with sporadic early-onset (≤40 years of age) colorectal carcinoma seen at our institution from the years 2000–2010 and ...

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