Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy, removes a diseased or damaged part of the colon or rectum. Bowel ...

Instead, Shaknovsky decided to change course entirely and “opted to perform a bowel resection on [her] which resulted in ...

Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The surgeon uses a flexible tube called a colonoscope to do the ...

Among patients with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer, long-term survival was better with lobectomy or segmentectomy vs.

BRANT LUMPKIN DIDN’T FEEL GOOD IN ANDERSON. THEY DISCOVERED THAT I HAD A LARGE POLYP, AND THEY SAID I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A COLON RESECTION, WHERE THEY TAKE PART OF THE COLON OUT.

This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the large bowel (colon cancer) that hasn't spread to another part of the body. Local resection is for small, early stage colon cancers. Your ...