Colorectal surgeries are major operations with a significant recovery period. Depending on the exact procedure you have done, you will spend time recovering in the hospital, maybe even a ...

Mike Mahoney was diagnosed with Thymoma in 2019, a cancer that affects the thymus gland. He said it started when he thought he'd torn something in his shoulder. "We tried 17 different ways ...

In conclusion, radical resection for such an invasive thymoma may be safely attempted in selected patients under CPB support, which may help achieve prolonged survival. The original contributions ...

Researchers observed a link between improved overall survival and lobectomy vs. sublobar resection. Researchers are working on a long-term risk calculator with these real-world data. Among ...

Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) is also known as anterior resection syndrome. It’s a collection of bowel symptoms that can happen after surgery to remove all or part of your rectum. These ...

Both lobectomy and segmentectomy demonstrated better outcomes than wedge resection, which had five-year OS of 66.3% and 10-year OS of 41.4%. This research highlights the profound effect of using ...

Surgical resection is the cornerstone treatment for TETs ... demonstrating excellent long-term outcomes in 59 patients operated for stage I-II thymoma (58 by VATS and one by RATS), with 10-year ...

Ravulizumab had an early and sustained clinical effect which contributed to the avoidance of intubation. A patient with thymoma-associated myasthenia gravis (MG) was successfully treated with ...

Surgery to remove a small part of bowel lining (local resection) This surgery is for small, early stage cancers. Your specialist removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of ...

Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The surgeon uses a flexible tube called a colonoscope to do the ...

Surgery, either with surgical resection (removal of the tumor) or a liver transplant, offers the best option to cure liver cancer, if it can be done. Surgery may not be possible if the tumor is large ...