Who Should Perform Your Colorectal Cancer Surgery?

Patients with colon & rectal cancer have been shown to have better outcomes when treated by a colon & rectal surgeon. A study in Annals of Surgery, the leading surgical journal in the U.S., demonstrated that specialists in colon & rectal surgery, or surgeons with more extensive experience, had better outcomes for their patients (Ann Surg. 1998 Feb;227(2):157-67).
You can locate a colon & rectal surgery specialist through the American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons.