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A Breakdown of the Costs of Colorectal Cancer Treatment
Colorectal cancer can be broken down into colon cancer and rectal cancer, but because tumors that develop in these areas often affect multiple connected...

Background Checks - Choosing a Colorectal Cancer Surgeon
Remember that finding the right colorectal cancer surgeon is not one isolated incident. Because of the multi-part nature of most colorectal cancer...

Types of Colectomies
A colectomy is a surgical procedure in which part, or all, of the colon is removed. Colectomies are often performed as a treatment for colon cancer,...

Upper Endoscopy and Colonoscopy
If you are told that you need to have an upper endoscopy, colonoscopy or both, there are certain things that you should be aware of before the day...

Preoperative Preparation
There will be many healthcare professionals working to make sure you have an excellent outcome from your surgery. Besides the surgeons, there are...

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

The Pathology Report
While you will meet your surgeon and anesthesiologist before your surgery, there is one medical professional that will participate in your surgery...

What is a Pathologist?
As a field, surgery owes much of its progress to the field of anesthesiology. If patients could not be safely placed unconscious, surgeons would...

A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...

How to Find and Choose an Oncologist - Cancer Surgery Specialist
‘Surgical oncologist’ is a somewhat slippery term. To begin with, operations to treat cancer are not only limited to surgical oncologists...

Training, Location, Expertise - Finding an Oncologist
Once you discover that you have been diagnosed with cancer, seeking rapid and definitive treatment is critical to surviving and ultimately beating the...

Robotic Prostate Surgery and Biopsy
Prostate cancer is all too common in American men and early diagnosis can mean less invasive surgery and even make the difference between life and...

Robotic Prostate Surgery – A Unique Approach
When you think of “robotic surgery,” it is difficult not to imagine a C-3PO style robot standing over an anesthetized patient. While this may...

Diagnosing Diseases of The Colon - The Cost of Colonoscopy
The colon, also known as the large intestine, is the last section of the digestive system and ends at the anus. This relatively large organ can be...

Routine Screening Colonoscopy
Colorectal cancer or colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death. The colon is the final part of the intestines and is also called...

Treating Cancer - Radiation Oncology
Modern medicine provides several ways of treating cancer such as surgery, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy. One of the main ways to treat cancer is...

Information on Anoscopy
It is occasionally necessary for a physician to examine the anus and rectum to a greater degree than a digital rectal examination can provide but without...

Biopsy Types and Information
A biopsy is a procedure in which a small amount of tissue is removed from the body for further analysis. A biopsy may be its own procedure or be included...

The Da Vinci Surgical System - Robotic Surgery Device
The da Vinci Surgical System is among the most commonly used robotic surgery devices used in the world today. Rather than being a "virtual reality"...