Your doctor's expertise and experience. Sometimes a laparoscopic surgery has to be changed to an open resection during the surgery. Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or ...

This surgery is for small, early stage colon cancers. Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border of healthy tissue (margin). This is called a local resection. The ...

About half of the people who have the procedure are still alive five years after the surgery. Liver resection requires hospitalization. Liver resection requires general anesthesia. The surgery can ...

Seder and colleagues assessed 32,340 adults with stage IA non-small cell lung cancer less than or equal to 2 cm who experienced lung resection surgery to determine how 10-year overall survival and ...