Most people have surgery for colon cancer that hasn't spread. The operation you have depends on the position of the cancer in the bowel. This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the ...

Fecal impaction is treated by medications to soften the stool and encourage it to pass, as well as enemas, digital disimpaction, other procedures, and surgery in more severe cases. Most mild to ...

(3) Of these cases 100% of the patients had to have damaged tissue surgically removed, 15% required fecal diversion surgery, two cases required an amputation surgery as a result of flesh-eating ...

A perforated bowel is a medical emergency that requires immediate surgery. Without treatment, it can cause severe infections, including sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection.

Research showed that while colectomy (removal of part of the colon) was more common in military settings, the rates of fecal diversion were ... Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Colon ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term that encompasses two chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract—ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Symptoms of both forms of IBD overlap and include ...

Bowel habits vary from person to person. However, sudden changes can indicate an underlying health condition, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). For some ...

This is called prehabilitation or prehab. This section is about treatment for large bowel (colon) cancer that hasn't spread to another part of the body. The main treatments are surgery and ...

“The scans revealed that I had stage 2 cancer, but luckily it hadn’t spread. I elected to have bowel resection surgery later that summer, but stayed positive given it had been caught early. “I spent ...

At the age of 18, she underwent seven hours of surgery to remove her colon and divert the end of her small bowel through a hole in her stomach, known as a stoma. A stoma bag then collects the waste.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.