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  2. Bowel resection - Wikipedia

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    Small bowel or colon cancer may require surgical resection. [7] Small bowel cancer often presents late in the course due to non-specific symptoms and has poor survival rates. Risk factors for small bowel cancer include genetically inherited polyposis syndromes, age over sixty years, and history of Crohn's or Celiac disease.

  3. Metastasectomy - Wikipedia

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    Among colorectal cancer patients, 15 to 25% will have liver metastases already when the colorectal cancer is discovered, and another 25 to 50% will develop them in the three years after resection of their primary cancer. [2] Of patients who die from metastasised colorectal cancer, 20% have metastasis in the liver alone. [2]

  4. Gastrointestinal cancer - Wikipedia

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    Pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis, [2] with a five-year survival rate of less than 5%. By the time the cancer is diagnosed, it is usually at an advanced, inoperable stage. [9] Only one in about fifteen to twenty patients is curative surgery attempted. [11] Pancreatic cancer tends to be aggressive, and it resists radiotherapy and ...

  5. Colonoscopy - Wikipedia

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    In most cases the positive result is just due to hemorrhoids; however, it can also be due to diverticulosis, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), colon cancer, or polyps. Colonic polypectomy has become a routine part of colonoscopy, allowing quick and simple removal of polyps during the procedure, without invasive ...

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    Between 2000 and 2016, the rate of colorectal cancers diagnosed in people between ages 40 and 49 shot up by nearly 15%. That figure continues to rise by 1% to 2% each year. That figure continues ...

  7. Endoscopic submucosal dissection - Wikipedia

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    Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is an advanced surgical procedure using endoscopy to remove gastrointestinal tumors that have not entered the muscle layer. ESD may be done in the esophagus, stomach or colon. Application of endoscopic resection (ER) to gastrointestinal (GI) neoplasms is limited to lesions with no risk of nodal metastasis.