Colon cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer if you don’t count skin cancers. If the cancer hasn’t spread, then one of the possible treatments is a sigmoid colectomy. That may be a ...

The sigmoid colon is the last section of the bowel — the part that attaches to the rectum. It pushes feces along the bowel tract. It’s about a foot and a half long (around 40 centimeters) and is ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, or another condition that affects the colon, you may need a colon resection. Colon resection surgery, also referred to as a colectomy, is a surgical ...

A colonoscopy technique involving repeat intubation of the sigmoid colon significantly improves detection of adenomas compared with conventional colonoscopy evaluations, new research showed. “After ...