RLS has been found to be more effective in treating sigmoid colon cancer through the increased harvesting of lymph nodes and having slightly higher survival rates.

Colonoscopy revealed a large polypoid mass in the distal sigmoid colon, which proved to be adenocarcinoma on the biopsy specimens (Figure 2). Surgical resection of the cervical lymph node and ...

Studies to date have suggested that the presence of GCC gene expression in lymph nodes increased the likelihood of disease recurrence in stage II colon cancer patients, independent of traditional ...

reported to the clinic in 1950 because of symptoms in the lower colon. A carcinoma of the rectosigmoid was discovered and resected, with a 7-cm. margin. The lymph nodes were negative for tumor ...

We found that Tregs from the proximal colon (colonic migratory Tregs) migrated exclusively to the distal part of mesenteric lymph nodes (dMLN ... 4 in comparison with pre-existing LN Tregs.

Bryce Ramsey was just 33 when she was diagnosed with sigmoid ... type of colon cancer. “I was absolutely terrified,” Ramsey said. “They removed 3 feet of my colon and 13 lymph nodes.” ...