Shannin Desroches fought for a diagnosis after being dismissed. Now she tells PEOPLE that she's been given a 5% chance of ...

“I was actually told that it’s normal for teenage girls to have ... “(I) got diagnosed with colon cancer,” she says. “I was ...

Sometimes a laparoscopic surgery has to be changed to an open resection during the surgery. Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection for ...

Our providers at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center have unique expertise in some of the newest, most innovative, minimally invasive surgical procedures ...

Your surgeon might remove the part of your large bowel (colon) containing the cancer. This is called a colectomy. Your surgeon also removes nearby lymph nodes. Surgery to remove part of the colon is ...

Read about surgery to remove a small part of the bowel lining Surgery to remove all or part of your bowel (colectomy) Your surgeon might remove the part of the colon containing the tumour. This is ...