“We can’t keep taking sections out of your gut and suturing you back together. It’s time to discuss ostomy surgery,” my doctor said. I was 34. My reaction was ...

The steps I took to find my rhythm began many years ago. I grew up watching Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand,” jitterbugging in front of the small, square, black and white television in the living ...

Renee Welsh had a colostomy when she was 32 because of severe Crohn's disease. Now, she's built a TikTok following dedicated to representation. This is her story, as told to Kelly Burch. Since I was 9 ...

An expert offers three steps that patients can take to become more comfortable and confident with their ostomy after undergoing surgery for gastric cancer. After a patient with gastrointestinal cancer ...

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 ...

OCEANSIDE — Often when people who have had ostomy surgeryattend their first support group meeting, they believe they havebeen sent to the wrong place because the people in the room look nodifferent ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am responding to a recent letter from a reader anxious about undergoing a colonoscopy. One of her concerns was a possible perforation requiring additional surgery and a temporary ...

For 31 years, Claire LeCompte was ashamed to talk about the pouch beneath her clothes, the remnant of cancer surgery that saved her life. But 20 years ago today, she became a charter member of the ...

Five years ago doctors gave Seymour Blechman six months to live. Today, the 67-year-old Lauderhill engineer travels around the world on business, plays golf, swims twice a week and rides three miles a ...

I didn't know what my life would be like after ostomy surgery, and I was still terrified of my decision to go ahead with the surgical procedure. The surgeon explained how he would surgically remove ...