Advanced Colon and Rectal Care

One of the first questions patients ask me when we begin discussing J-pouch surgery is remarkably simple. "Will my life feel normal again?" To anyone with ulcerative colitis, it's a completely understandable question. Many people considering J-pouch surgery have spent years living around the condition. They know where every bathroom is. They plan travel around symptoms. They cancel dinners, vacations, and family events because of urgency or unpredictable flares. By the time s

For many people with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, the word “surgery” feels like defeat. Patients often spend years working through medications, diet changes, bloodwork, colonoscopies, imaging, infusions, injections, and flare management. Surgery can feel like the thing that happens only when everything else has failed. But that is not the right way to think about it. In inflammatory bowel disease, surgery is not a failure. It is one of the tools we use to restore he

For many years, colorectal cancer was thought of as a disease that mostly affected older adults. That is still partly true: age remains one of the most important risk factors. But the story has changed. More adults in their 30s, 40s, and early 50s are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer than in previous generations. This trend has been concerning enough that national screening guidelines now recommend that average-risk adults begin colorectal cancer screening at age 45 ins