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 ...

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 ...

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 ...