Visit our podcast page to listen to "Take What Serves. Leave the Rest" and subscribe using your preferred podcast provider. Learn more at takewhatserves.podbean.com. In this episode, Bryan talks to ...

For many people diagnosed with colorectal cancer, surgery can bring lifesaving treatment but also lasting changes.

“We can’t keep taking sections out of your gut and suturing you back together. It’s time to discuss ostomy surgery,” my doctor said. I was 34. My reaction was ...

Ileostomy and colostomy are both surgical procedures to create an opening in the abdomen to reroute the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Diversion colitis (DC) is a condition that causes a part of the ...

After undergoing a colorectal cancer surgery and getting an ostomy, patients may experience a prolapse, but it is not cause to panic, an expert says. Stoma prolapses are usually “alarming, but not ...

The life expectancy of someone with an ileostomy depends on the underlying illness they have. An ileostomy does not reduce an individual’s life expectancy. Doctors perform this procedure to bypass ...

Does neoadjuvant FOLFOX chemotherapy improve the oncological prognosis of high-risk stage II and III colon cancers ? Three years’ follow-up results of the Prodige 22 phase II randomized multicenter ...