Inclusion Criteria:

- Patient age over 18 years

- Patient scheduled for colorectal cancer surgery

- Patient is able to comprehend and sign the Informed Consent Form

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient has known allergy to nickel

- Patient with bowel obstruction, bowel strangulation, peritonitis, bowel perforation,
local or systemic infection

- Patients who are participating in another trial

- Patient on regular steroid medication

- Patients who are undergoing a stoma

- Patients with contraindications to general anesthesia

- Patient with preexisting sphincter problems or evidence of extensive local disease in
the pelvis

- Patients after radiation

- Patients who refuse consent