This is a colostomy. During chemotherapy, a cancer care team will administer medications that interfere with the cell division process. They achieve this by disrupting proteins or DNA to damage ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Ileostomy and colostomy are two types of ostomy surgery that treat diseases and ...

Surgery to remove all of or a part of your bowel (colectomy) Your surgeon might remove part of the colon containing the tumour. This is called a colectomy. A colostomy is an operation to create an ...