Boston Scientific has recalled the Axios stent after FDA linked the device to three deaths and 167 serious injuries. The deaths were associated with use cases that were outside of the stent’s ...

Ozempic and Wegovy might help people avoid colon cancer as well as promote weight loss or control diabetes, a new study says. People who took a GLP-1 drug were 36% less likely to get colon cancer than ...

Colon cancer diagnosis involves colonoscopy, imaging, and blood tests, with staging guiding treatment decisions. Stage 1 treatment typically involves surgery, while stage 2 may include chemotherapy ...

A bridge-to-surgery approach using colonic stent placement offers similar short-term survival outcomes to emergency surgery in patients with left-sided obstructive colorectal cancer, while reducing ...

George Howard, DrPH, and Lloyd Edwards, Ph.D., both professors in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, are at the forefront of this ...

Despite guideline recommendations, evidence for the use of non–vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant (NOAC) monotherapy in patients with atrial fibrillation after implantation of a drug-eluting ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A sirolimus-eluting balloon was found to be noninferior to conventional stenting in separate trials of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), suggesting these ...

Kentucky has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancer in the US, but early detection leads to a 91% five-year survival rate. Colorectal cancer is projected to become the leading cancer killer for ...

COLONIC stenting for obstructing colorectal cancer can be performed with acceptable radiation exposure while offering patients a strong chance of avoiding stoma formation, according to new findings.