Surgical volume influences survival in patients undergoing resections for stage II colon cancers.

Background: There is current interest in the correlation between surgical volume and outcomes. Survival in patients with rectal cancer appears to improve when carried out by surgeons who do high volumes of procedures. A similar correlation for patients with colon cancer has never been clearly established.

Changing patterns of recurrence after treatment for colorectal cancer.

Background: The management of patients with colorectal cancer has changed appreciably over the last 16 years. The aims of this study were to compare the rates and patterns of disease recurrence over the last 10 years with a historical control group.

Materials And Methods: Data was obtained from a prospective database that had recorded all patients presenting with colorectal cancer from 1996 to 2006.

Review of survival curves for colorectal cancer.

Purpose: Actuarial and Product Limited (i.e., Kaplan-Meier) estimates of survival are commonly used in the literature to describe outcomes in patients treated for cancer.

Resolving microcarcinoids in ulcerative colitis: report of a case.

Ulcerative colitis is known to predispose to the development of neoplasia, especially adenocarcinoma. Microcarcinoids represent small nests of gut endocrine cells located in the mucosa and submucosa of the bowel. Such lesions have been identified in association with chronic inflammation and the concern is that they may represent a precursor lesion for invasive carcinoid tumors.

Flexible sigmoidoscopy screening for colorectal neoplasia in average-risk people: evaluation of a five-year rescreening interval.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of colorectal neoplasia detected by rescreening people with average risk five years after initial screening by flexible sigmoidoscopy.

Design: Prospective survey of results of a colorectal cancer screening program.

Participants: People aged 55-64 years with no symptoms or family history of colorectal cancer who were recruited from the community for flexible sigmoidoscopy screening five years previously (July 1995 to December 1996) and had no colorectal neoplasms detected.

The management of patients with the short bowel syndrome.

The surgeon is invariably the primary specialist involved in managing patients with short bowel syndrome. Because of this they will play an important role in co-ordinating the management of these patients. The principal aims at the initial surgery are to preserve life, then to preserve gut length, and maintain its continuity.