Patient Pursues Best Quality of Life After Preventive Surgery

<p>As she got out of the car and waved goodbye to her husband and her mother, Margaret-Ann Simonetta’s shoulders stiffened with anxiety. It was April 2021, still in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and she was headed into Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a colectomy – a total surgical removal of her colon. With ... <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2026/03/lynch-syndrome-colon-surgery-patient-story/" title="Patient…