When resecting tumors, surgeons aim to spare as much healthy tissue as possible while ensuring removal of the entire tumor. Pediatric surgeons at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s ...

For more than 20 years, liver surgeons have known that tailored resection of colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) provides a huge survival advantage compared with chemotherapy alone, and today more ...

Radiofrequency (RF)-assisted liver resection is one method that may be used in surgery for primary or secondary liver cancer. Liver metastasis (secondary cancer) occurs as part of the disease process ...

Treatment strategies for patients with liver cancer depend on tumour type, location, number and size. Most patients with liver cancer cannot benefit from surgical treatment and are treated with ...

Tower Health now offers hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgical oncology services led by Dr. Gary S. Xiao, chief, hepato-pancreato-biliary surgical oncology. HPB surgery treats malignant and benign ...

Seventy-six patients with LL-mCRC were retrospectively included. DNA from tumor tissue was sequenced, and one somatic mutation was then assessed by digital droplet polymerase chain reaction in plasma ...

How do social determinants of health impact timeliness of chemotherapy and survival in patients with metastatic colon cancer? A 12-year study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ...

Resection of tumors in the caudate lobe (a deep, hard-to-reach part of the liver) is recognized as one of the most ...

A new paper in the British Journal of Surgery, published by Oxford University Press, finds that patients undergoing liver surgery fare better in higher-volume hospitals; their mortality rates are ...