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Comprehensive Care
Trained Surgeons and Medical Professionals
Comprehensive Cancer Care
Our highly trained surgeons and medical professionals specialize in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of patients with cancer of the anus, colon and rectum. Carolina Colorectal Surgery offers a full continuum of colon and rectal cancer (colorectal caner) care including preventive care (colonoscopy screening), diagnosis, treatment, surgery and follow-up care. We develop individualized treatment plans, including staging of the cancer with endorectal ultrasound, MRI or colonoscopy and surgery.
Comprehensive Cancer Care
- Traditional (open) surgical procedures
- Traditional transanal procedures
- Minimally invasive procedures – endoscopic and laparoscopic surgery, transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM), and use of robotics
- Endoscopic procedures – colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, anoscopy and high resolution anoscopy
- Diagnostic procedures – endoanal ultrasound, endorectal ultrasound, special physiological testing Innovative technologies
Services
Anal Cancer
The anal canal is a passage that connects the rectum to the outside of the body. The anal canal is surrounded by muscles that keep the anal canal closed except for when the muscles are relaxed during a bowel movement.
Cancer Screening and Surveillance
Many polyps and cancers of the colon and rectum do not produce symptoms until they become fairly large. Cancer Screening involves one or more tests performed to identify whether a person with no symptoms has a disease or not.
Colonoscopy
Colonoscopy is a safe, effective method of examining the full lining of the colon and rectum, using a long, flexible, tubular instrument.
Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States, striking 140,000 people annually and causing 60,000 deaths.
Genetics + Colorectal Cancer
Colonoscopy is a safe, effective method of examining the full lining of the colon and rectum, using a long, flexible, tubular instrument.
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer – cancer of the colon and rectum – is the second leading cancer killer in the United States and all women and men aged 50 and older are at risk.