WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (WPVI) -- Doctors, medical oncologists, and other cancer experts from across the globe spent several days at Lankenau Medical Center, trying to find better approaches to rectal cancer.

Intermountain Health is the first in the nation to use a new tool using a 3D computer model for rectal cancer surgery. The new technology, called Iris, guides surgeons during robotic rectal cancer ...

Colorectal Surgeon Dr. Julio Garcia-Aguilar, MD, PhD (seated) with nurse Kieran Kelleher BSN-RN. Dr. Garcia-Aguilar and the colorectal service at MSK are experts at the watch and wait approach to ...

Neil Smart, consultant surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, leader of clinical trials, and editor in chief of Colorectal Disease, couldn’t give his lecture at last year’s annual meeting of ...

A new treatment for rectal cancer is allowing some patients to avoid surgery. Doctors are seeing more young adults diagnosed ...

Neoadjuvant radiotherapy followed by surgery can improve overall survival compared with surgery alone in certain patients with locally advanced rectal cancers, most notably in those with lower rectal ...

New cancer research pioneered by Memorial Sloan Kettering points to a strong alternative to chemotherapy, surgery and radiation for some forms of cancer. Nearly 80% of patients who suffered from a ...

MRI can predict the risk of rectal cancer reccurring or spreading for patients who have undergone chemotherapy and radiation, new research indicates. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can spare many ...

Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients have a ...