The incidence of right-sided colon cancers has increased since the 1980s, while the incidence of left-sided colon cancers has decreased. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain this ...

A hemicolectomy is when the colon's left or right side is removed. A left hemicolectomy removes the descending colon (located on the left side of the abdomen). When the ascending colon, which runs ...

Cancer is rarely detected in the right-sided colon because genes' function of ejecting tumor cells and other foreign substances there is as strong as in the small intestine, which has a powerful ...

If colon cancer spreads to liver, you may notice weight loss, yellowing skin, or pain on the right side of your belly. Besides the liver, colon cancer can also spread to the lungs. This is because ...