What's New and Beneficial about Carrots. 1  Carrots were one of the vegetables examined in recent research on foods rich in beta-carotene and bone health. More specifically, intake of yellow/orange and green vegetables was evaluated to see if greater intake was related to greater bone mass.
exists and is an alternate of . If your colon is removed and nothing else is done for you, you will die. In modern medicine removal of part or all of the colon is accompanied by provision of a colostomy or iliostomy, where the remaining end of the colon or of the small intestine is brought through the abdominal wall to the exterior.
The colon, or large bowel, has three sides: the ascending colon (right side), the transverse colon, and the descending colon (left side). Patients with colon cancer and colorectal cancer may have hemicolectomy. Surgery to remove part of the colon or large intestine is called hemicolectomy or sigmoid colectomy. Depending on where the cancer is located will determine which side of the colon is removed. Colectomy. The primary treatment for colon cancer is surgery. The part of the large bowel with cancer is removed, along with surrounding lymph nodes. Removal of the colon is called a colectomy. The remaining bowel is then joined together. Joining the bowel is called an anastomosis. When cancer is found in the ascending colon, the right side is removed. The colon is then joined to the small intestine.