Surgical resection of symptomatic, benign intradural extramedullary (IDEM) spine tumors provides rapid, significant, and durable improvements in patient-reported outcomes (PROs), according to our ...

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health successfully completed its first full-thickness resection device procedure.  During a routine screening colonoscopy, a neuroendocrine tumor was identified ...

Long-term outcomes of ablation versus surgery in patients with colorectal lung oligometastasis: A retrospective cohort study. Time to target TIM-3 in colorectal cancer: TIM-3 expression to predict ...

Liver resection is recommended to treat some types of cancer originating in the liver (hepatocellular cancer, bile duct cancer, and gallbladder cancer), and occasionally benign liver tumors that are ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder, MD, thoracic surgeon at ...

The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, is divided into four paired sections, called lobes -- the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes. Each lobe controls a specific group of ...

The effect of adjuvant treatment on survival in pancreatic cancer is unclear. We report the final results of the European Study Group for Pancreatic Cancer 1 Trial and update the interim results. The ...

Tranzyme Pharma Inc.'s drug ulimorelin failed to perform in a trial for bowel resection recovery acceleration, according to top-line results released Monday.

If nonsurgical treatments do not relieve a person’s thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms, a doctor may suggest surgery to relieve compression in the thoracic outlet. Surgery may include a first rib ...