After stomach cancer is diagnosed, a team of cancer specialists will work together with you to develop a personalized ...

Doctors may offer people with stomach cancer the opportunity to have surgery. This can help to remove the cancer or prevent complications and reduce the side effects of the disease. If the cancer has ...

Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon, Clinical Professor of Surgery and Co-Lead, National Clinical Programme in Surgery, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Getting older makes ...

General surgery is a broad field that encompasses several procedures aimed at treating conditions affecting various parts of the body. Understanding the fundamentals of general surgery can help you ...

With the inflation of prescriptions for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, physicians began seeing a startling amount of regurgitation and aspiration in ...

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is a surgical treatment for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, a bulge in the wall of your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, starts at your heart and ...

Laparoscopic surgery, being minimally invasive, often allows for a quicker recovery compared to open abdominal surgery (laparotomy). Recovery after endometriosis surgery typically takes several weeks ...

In August 2023, after spending a decade plus dreading the arrival of my periods so painful I'd routinely spend days in bed guzzling Nurofen, I sat in a gynaecologist's office as he explained that he ...

Surgery might be a physical event, but it’s a mental and emotional one, too. Even if the procedure is routine, it can bring up real fears of pain and the unknown. That kind of stress doesn’t always ...