Not everyone with colorectal cancers and bowel diseases needs a colostomy. You may be able to avoid ostomy surgery, depending on the reason for it. A colostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an ...

An ostomy is a surgical procedure creating an opening, or "stoma," on the abdomen to allow waste to exit the body. This may be essential due to conditions like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or ...

As part of CURE®’s Heal at Home series, we offer a guide on ostomies following surgery and how patients can best care for their stomas. These are just some of the questions that Stephanie S. Yates, a ...

Ileostomy and colostomy are both surgical procedures to create an opening in the abdomen to reroute the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Diversion colitis (DC) is a condition that causes a part of the ...

Ostomy procedures have been keeping people alive for hundreds of years, but not everyone has knowledge about these life-saving procedures or their impact on the lives of the people who have them. I ...