June 26, 2007 — Transanal excision (TA) is the most common method of surgically excising local rectal lesions, but data presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal ...

A colorectal specialist at OU Cancer Institute is offering transanal endoscopic microsurgery as a treatment for colorectal cancer, according to a news release. Gary Dunn, MD, has incorporated the ...

May 2, 2006 (Dallas) — A prospective, randomized study shows no difference in 5-year survival rates for patients with T2 N0 rectal tumors who had neoadjuvant therapy and then underwent either ...

Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots ...

Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEMS) on large rectal adenomas provides results comparable to or better than those reported for alternative techniques, shows a UK study. However, the authors found ...

MAS techniques have been shown to be oncologically equivalent to open rectal cancer resection in terms of the number of harvested lymph nodes and margin negativity Barriers such as a steep learning ...

The development of complete personalized treatment plans for colon cancer patients utilizing three gene prediction models. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

YOKNE'AM ILLIT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumenis Ltd, the world’s largest energy-based medical device company for aesthetic, surgical, and ophthalmic applications, is pleased to announce its formal ...