Background The management of patients with surgically incurable bowel cancer at
presentation is controversial. The aims of treatment are to optimise quality of life and prolong …

3.2 Perioperative Care 3.2. 1 Optimization of co-morbidities and risk stratification 3.2. 2
Informed decision making 3.2. 3 Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) 3.2. 4 …

(Mawdsley et al., 2005) and poorer overall survival (OS)(Wibe et al., 2002), even after TME
(Marijnen et al., 2003). The CRM can be involved by direct or discontinuous tumour spread …

Background Closure of an abdominal stoma, a common elective operation, is associated
with frequent complications; one of the commonest and impactful is incisional hernia …

This work used in vivo MRI images of human colon wall motion to inform a biorelevant
Dynamic Colon Model (DCM) to understand the interplay of wall motion, volume, viscosity …

Previous meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of follow up after curative colorectal
cancer resection have shown survival benefit in patients undergoing 'intensive'follow up …

Background Appendicitis can be secondary to caecal pathology (polyp or cancer).
Increasing age is a risk factor for malignancy coexisting with appendicitis. There is an …

Concern over a diagnosis of colorectal cancer should prompt urgent referral, in most cases
within general practice through a 'two week wait rule'. Criteria for two-week wait referral …

Aim The concept of significant polyps and early colorectal cancer (SPECC) encompasses
complex polyps not amenable to routine snare polypectomy or where malignancy cannot be …

Background Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is now an established method for
imaging the colon and rectum in the screening and symptomatic setting. Additional benefit of …