Madera Community Hospital has been fined $47,015 by the California Department of Public Health for a surgery on the wrong side of a patient’s colon. The hospital says the doctor is still an ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — A first-of-its-kind free surgical clinic is opening in California, offering lower income and under or entirely uninsured patients the ability to get needed surgeries.

Complete mesocolic excision, a new way of performing surgery in patients with stage I-III colon cancer, ... (Images are from specimens from Bertelsen CA et al. Lancet Oncol. December 31, ...

First-of-its-kind no-cost surgery center opens in California. ... we would not have caught it early and that colon cancer would have cost that person their life,” Gerber told the publication.