For many people diagnosed with colorectal cancer, surgery can bring lifesaving treatment but also lasting changes.

Manhasset-based North Shore University Hospital, part of the Northwell Health system, has opened an ostomy clinic. Ostomy surgery allows waste or urine pass through an opening in the abdomen to a ...

Whenever possible, stoma site marking is viewed as "best practice" for patients facing the possibility of stoma surgery. "Multiple studies indicate that preoperative stoma site marking by an educated ...

Patients undergoing abdominal surgery for ostomy placement have high rates of hospital readmissions and emergency department visits – often involving ostomy-related complications, reports a study in ...