Colorectal Surgery
Our Colorectal Surgery team is located at Footscray Hospital and sees people with disorders of the rectum, anus and colon.
Where to find this service
Where to find this service
What we do
The Colorectal Surgery team sees people with disorders of the rectum, anus and colon.
We have a specialist team of colorectal surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, palliative care physicians and pathologists. The team is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of diseases involving the colon, rectum and anus, and to the advancement of knowledge of these diseases.
We also run a multi-disciplinary Colorectal Cancer Service, which is actively involved in clinical trials.
Services and facilities
Colorectal/general surgery includes procedures being undertaken for:
- Anal fissures
- Colonoscopy
- Chron’s disease
- Cancers
- Diverticular disease
- Endometriosis
- Faecal incontinence
- Haemorrhoids
- Ischaemic Colitis
- Laparoscopic Surgery
- Pruritis
- Rectal prolapse
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