Australia has the highest reported rates in the world of colon cancer in younger people. Understanding the possible causes is ...

In the gut, there is an enteric nervous system; it is a network of neurons that extends throughout the walls of the GI tract ...

The colon contains four layers of tissue. The inside layer is a mucous membrane. The mucus keeps the body from absorbing all the bacteria in fecal matter, and it also helps the feces glide along ...

it’s helpful to know the layers of tissue in the colon wall. Cancer has spread through the muscle layer. It is in the serosa (stage IIA), or it has spread further — to the lining of the organs in your ...

Mucus is a highly regenerative protective lubricant glycoprotein sheet secreted by host intestinal goblet cells; the inner mucus layer is nearly sterile. Here we show that the outer mucus of the ...

There are five stages of colon cancer, and three of the stages have three substages. Cancer in stage 0 is also known as carcinoma in situ. It's found in the inner layer of your colon or rectum but ...

A person’s colon contains two layers of mucus. The first inner layer is fixed to the colon wall to protect it. The second layer is not attached to the colon wall and allows helpful bacteria to ...

“The inner mucus layer of the colon becomes permeable to bacteria after exposure to dextran sulfate,” says Gunnar C. Hansson, corresponding author of a new study published in PLoS ON ...

Dr. Dick is renowned for pioneering the cancer stem cell field by identifying leukemia stem cells in 1994 and colon cancer stem cells in 2007. Also in 2011, Dr. Dick isolated the normal human ...

The most common inflammatory bowel diseases are: Crohn’s disease. This type of IBD inflames the lining and the deeper layers of your digestive tract. Ulcerative colitis. This type of IBD involves ...

The bowel is attached to the abdominal wall by a layer of tissue called the "mesentery." The mesentery also contains the main blood vessels (arteries) that supply blood to the ileum and ascending ...

Tis means carcinoma in situ. The cancer is at its earliest stage and only in the bowel lining (mucosa). T1 means the tumour is only in the inner layer of the bowel. T2 means the tumour has grown into ...