Standard adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer consists of a fluoropyrimidine-plus-oxaliplatin regimen. Whether the addition of atezolizumab (an anti–programmed death ligand 1 agent) to a ...

Julie now lives with only 100cm of bowel, which causes diarrhoea multiple times a day WHEN Julie Hughes woke up from a deep coma, she couldn’t remember Scott – her husband and the father of her two ...

WHEN Julie Hughes woke up from a deep coma, she couldn’t remember Scott – her husband and the father of her two kids. Only two weeks before, he had been by her side as she writhed around in pain, ...

Researchers find in a study that two types of colon polyps can raise bowel cancer risk fivefold. These two polyp types may represent separate cancer pathways that can occur at the same time. Nearly ...

The Midlands Province has launched its first specialised fistula repair camp aimed at providing life-changing surgical treatment to women suffering from obstetric fistula. The initiative is designed ...

HER miracle came decades later. In all those years, she never lost hope. Now 67, Gogo Esther Maxaba is a true example of resilience. Married off at a very young age and never attended school, she fled ...

Willie Colón, the Grammy-nominated architect of urban salsa music and social activist, died Saturday. He was 75. Over his decades-long career, the trombonist, composer, arranger and singer produced ...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a long-term condition that causes inflammation in the digestive tract. Many people are diagnosed in their ...

Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With Cancer Treated With Checkpoint Inhibitors: Association With Survival Outcomes and Immune-Related Adverse Events In recent years, the management of localized ...

Systemic Therapy for Muscle-Invasive Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder (Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer): Insights From Real-World Data Patients with stage I-III colon cancer treated with upfront ...

The cost of emergency dialysis is estimated to be eight times that of in-center dialysis. A new study reveals that a transitional dialysis program piloted in Travis County (Austin, Texas) resulted in ...

Dr. Brooke A. Rice (Medicine): A 56-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of left lower abdominal pain and anemia. The patient had been in his usual state of health until 1 year before ...