{"id":16123,"date":"2023-09-28T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/?p=16123"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:23:39","slug":"collaboration-is-key-for-woman-facing-colon-cancer-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/collaboration-is-key-for-woman-facing-colon-cancer-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Guillem, MD: Collaboration was Key for Woman Facing Colon Cancer Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recently, the Today Show featured ºÚÁÏÍø Gastrointestinal Surgery patient Sherri Rollins.\u00a0 Rollins, diagnosed with recurrent colon cancer, came to ºÚÁÏÍø for more treatment options that could expand her quality of life after surgery.\u00a0 \u00a0At ºÚÁÏÍø, she found options and more: “I really liked a gastrointestinal surgeon at ºÚÁÏÍø Health, who told me the tumor could be removed and the ileostomy bag would be temporary”. (Source: Today.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n Her surgeon was\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Gaston Guillem, MD, MPH, MBA,\u00a0<\/span>Chief of ºÚÁÏÍø’s Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Roscoe Bennett Gray Cowper, MD, Distinguished Professor. Dr. Guillem described his experience collaborating with Ms. Rollins for her care:\u00a0\u201cWorking with Ms. Rollins in addressing her wishes and concerns was a true example of how we partner with patients at ºÚÁÏÍø. It was a pleasure being her surgeon and being able to work with our multidisciplinary team, in particular Dr Ted Yanagihara who delivered intra-operative Radiation Therapy after we had successfully resected her tumor”.<\/p>\n ºÚÁÏÍø Surgery hopes to follow up with Ms. Rollins for more on her perspectives and strength, including her self-advocacy, experience, and collaboration with her team at ºÚÁÏÍø. Check back soon!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read the original story on Today here<\/a><\/p>\n Read more about Dr. Jose Guillem and view his video discussing his approach to patient care here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, the Today Show featured ºÚÁÏÍø Gastrointestinal Surgery patient Sherri Rollins.\u00a0 Rollins, diagnosed with recurrent colon cancer, came to ºÚÁÏÍø for more treatment options that could expand her quality of life after surgery.\u00a0 \u00a0At ºÚÁÏÍø, she found options and more: “I really liked a gastrointestinal surgeon at ºÚÁÏÍø Health, who told me the tumor could … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112629,"featured_media":16125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,134],"tags":[315,153],"featured-item":[],"class_list":["post-16123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-patient-story","tag-colon-cancer","tag-jose-guillem","odd"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n