Shands HealthCare provides HealthCasts covering a wide variety of general health issues. Shands HealthCare is a private, not-for-profit healthcare system affiliated with the University of Florida and its Health Science Center campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville. It includes eight Shands hospitals, two home-health agencies and more than 80 affiliated UF outpatient practices located throughout North Central and Northeast Florida. Our 13,000 employees, 3,500 volunteers and 1,500 UF and community physicians contribute to our excellent reputation and share a common vision, “The Science of Hope.”

Colorectal surgery

Welcome to another Shands HealthCast, brought to you by Shands HealthCare. Today we're talking about colon cancer and colorectal surgery with Dr. Emina Huang, University of Florida associate professor of surgery. Take a few minutes to hear Dr. Huang tell you about the latest research and treatments offered by UF faculty for colon cancer. Dr. Huang is a board-certified colortectal surgeon and she sees her patients at the Surgical Associates Clinic located on the first floor of Shands at UF. For more information about the UF colorectal surgical team, call 352-265-0535, or visit Shands.org's Gastrointestinal Oncology page.