A permanent ostomy bag and a long recovery are often associated with colorectal cancer surgery, but according to a surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine, advances in the field mean that these concerns ...
Colostomy surgery is a procedure where the colon or large intestine is diverted to an artificial opening on the lower section of the wall of the abdomen so that it can expel out fecal matter to the ...
I am a 47-year old female and have been suffering from diarrhoea for the past 14-years. Since the surgeon performed the initial biopsy he only focussed on a permanent colostomy and informed me that if ...
A Crohn's patient has raised awareness of the realities of living with the disease - including using a colostomy bag - by writing on Facebook about how people are insensitive towards those with the ...
Suzanne Dore, a 42-year-old British mother-of-two, is a major fashionista. She's also a cancer survivor. Suzanne was diagnosed with advanced bowel cancer back in 2010. She'd experienced stomach ...
After living with two permanent ostomy bags for more than 30 years, a fashion model from Baltimore is sharing her story in hopes that people around the globe will also embrace what makes them ...
A woman who was going to the toilet 40 times a day says she feels like a "new woman" after having her entire bowel removed during emergency surgery and now lives with a permanent stoma. Charlie Ryan, ...