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2. Bowel resection - Wikipedia

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   When caused by cancer, bowel perforation typically requires surgery, including resection of blood and lymph supply to the cancerous area when possible. When perforation is at the site of the tumor, the perforation may be contained in the tumor and self resolve without surgery. However, surgery may be required later for the malignancy itself.

3. Colectomy - Wikipedia

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   Colectomy as treatment for colorectal cancer also includes lymphadenectomy, or removal of surrounding lymph nodes, which may be done for staging of the cancer or removal of cancerous nodes. [11] More extensive lymphadenectomy is sometimes accomplished by the removal of the mesocolon , the fatty tissue adjacent to the colon, which contains blood ...

4. Total mesorectal excision - Wikipedia

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   [5] [6] The operation can be done by open surgery, laparoscopic or Robot-assisted. [7] For lower down tumours in the middle and lower third of the rectum a new procedure has been developed known as Transanal-Total Mesorectal Excision (TaTME). Instead of the dissection via the abdomen TaTME combines an abdominal and transanal endoscopic approach ...

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6. Immunotherapy Before Surgery Leads to Better Outcomes for ...

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   Surgery is the primary treatment for colorectal cancer, but in research published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine scientists found that a pair of immunotherapy drugs administered ...

7. Lower anterior resection - Wikipedia

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   General surgery [ edit on Wikidata ] A lower anterior resection , formally known as anterior resection of the rectum and colon and anterior excision of the rectum or simply anterior resection (less precise), is a common surgery for rectal cancer and occasionally is performed to remove a diseased or ruptured portion of the intestine in cases of ...