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2. Total mesorectal excision - Wikipedia

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   Total mesorectal excision (TME) is a standard surgical technique for treatment of rectal cancer, first described in 1982 by Professor Bill Heald at the UK's Basingstoke District Hospital. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a precise dissection of the mesorectal envelope comprising rectum containing the tumour together with all the surrounding fatty tissue and ...

3. 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.

4. Lower anterior resection - Wikipedia

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   Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) comprises a collection of symptoms mainly affecting patients after surgery for rectal cancer characterized by fecal incontinence (stool and gases), fecal urgency, frequent bowel movements and bowel fragmentation, while some patients only experience constipation and a feeling of incomplete bowel emptying.

5. 'Bowel cancer storyline is personal for me' - AOL

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   Jennifer Metcalfe's dad Colin died from bowel cancer when she was 15 [Family photo] Mercedes is seen with a stoma bag, which is used after bowel cancer surgery if a section of the bowel is removed.

6. All you need to know about bowel cancer after Deborah ... - AOL

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   Here is everything you need to know about bowel cancer, its warning signs and treatment: Dame Deborah James (Alamy/PA) ... “This can include surgery combined with chemotherapy, radiotherapy or ...

7. Esophagectomy - Wikipedia

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   Recognized major cancer hospitals typically report mortality rates under 5%. Major complications occur in 10–20% of patients, and some sort of complication (major and minor) occurs in 40%. Time in hospital is usually 1–2 weeks and recovery time 3–6 months. It is possible for the recovery time to take up to a year.

8. Mowbray eyes return after bowel cancer diagnosis - AOL

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   Former Sunderland and Birmingham City boss Tony Mowbray speaks about his battle with bowel cancer and hopes of ... road to recovery after surgery, but his passion for football remains undimmed ...

9. Abdominoperineal resection - Wikipedia

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   William Ernest Miles (1869–1947), an English surgeon first performed the surgery of removing the rectum in 1907. He assumed that the rectal cancer can spread in both upwards and downward directions, thus necessitating the removal of the entire rectum together with the anal sphincters, resulting in a permanent stoma by connecting the proximal end of the descending colon to the skin.