Methods We conducted a noninferiority trial at 48 institutions and randomly assigned 872 patients with adenocarcinoma of the colon to undergo open or laparoscopically assisted colectomy performed by ...

Laparoscopic colectomy typically results in a significant reduction of healthcare costs and utilization, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery. 1. Researchers examined national health ...

Although in the past decade there have been numerous reports on laparoscopic colorectal surgery for cancer, the majority of these are retrospective. The few published prospective randomized trials ...

Prognostic impact of reduced lymph node yield in lymph-node negative rectal cancer specimens following neoadjuvant treatment. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

The lncRNA gene copy number variation as a low-invasive marker of rectal tumor cell sensitivity to radiotherapy.