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Rectal cancer researchers have pulled off a daunting feat, demonstrating in a large clinical trial that patients do just as well without radiation therapy as with it.The results, revealed Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society…

Rectal cancer starts when mutations occur in the DNA of previously healthy rectal cells.Abnormal changes in the abdomen occur when rectal cancer develops, resulting in frequent episodes of diarrhoea and constipation.Rectal cancer refers to…

Doctors have weighed in on Gwyneth Paltrow's ‘pretty weird’ new wellness trend that involves shooting gas up her rectum.They warn that there is no robust scientific evidence pointing to the treatment's benefits and warned that it could even…

A single mum who thought she had a 'tummy bug' was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer after visiting her doctor.Sophie Edwards was diagnosed with rectal adenocarcinoma - a form of bowel cancer - on June 14, 2022 despite having no…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Hanna K. Sanoff, MD, MPH, is the author of a viewpoint in the New England Journal of Medicine that provides a perspective on the evolving treatment of rectal cancer. She offers prospects for…