Prophylactic closure of defects after endoscopic submucosal dissection of the colon reduces delayed bleeding and may lower ...

Total neoadjuvant treatment (TNT) may offer a promising alternative to surgery for patients with stage I rectal cancer (S1RC), a small study finds. 1 Among patients treated, TNT achieved a 93.7% ...

Amy Skoutelas was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May after doctors repeatedly told her she was fine. Here's what led her ...

Neoadjuvant therapy plays an increasingly important role in the multidisciplinary management of gastrointestinal cancers.

In a world-first procedure at Rabin Medical Center, a 23-year-old woman underwent life-saving intestinal surgery in her 32nd week of pregnancy—and later gave birth to a healthy baby girl.The post ...

PROFESSOR Calvin Coffey, academic head of surgery at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) and foundation chair of surgery at ...

Professor Calvin Coffey has been awarded the Ian Lavery Master Clinician in Colorectal Surgery Lectureship and Visiting Professorship - the highest honour bestowed by the Department of Colorectal Surg ...

Recently, minimally invasive surgery has been attempted in various diseases and is becoming a new standard, and a study ...

People with colon cancer who took GLP-1 drugs were less likely to die within 5 years than people not on GLP-1s, a new study ...

Gastrointestinal procedures continue to dominate the ASC landscape in 2025, driven by increased screening demand, younger-onset colorectal cancer and ongoing migration of cases out of hospitals. All ...

After enduring seven prior abdominal surgeries, 64-year-old Joy Monetti from Islip was no stranger to painful procedures and lengthy recoveries.