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Bowel Cancer Screening

Roughly 30% of middle-aged and older Americans have one or more polyps on the surface of the colon, which are relatively harmless but may become cancerous over time. While anyone can develop a polyp, some people are at higher risk of turning up with one during a bowel cancer screening, such as those over 50, [...]

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Dangers And Risks of Colonoscopy Procedures

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare to go in for a routine test only to find that he or she is now worse off than before, yet that’s exactly what happened at VA hospitals in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Augusta, Georgia; and Miami, Florida. Out of 10,000 patients who had colon cancer screening, 6 veterans tested positive for HIV, [...]

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Virtual Colonoscopy

Usually, the first symptoms of colon cancer appear once it’s too late and colon cancer patients are already into Stage III, where the survival rate is down to about 40%. Yet, if caught early, this deadly disease is 93 to 100% curable. Each year, 49,920 Americans die of metastatic colon cancer that has migrated throughout [...]

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How To Prevent Colon Cancer

Cancer research has never been more exciting. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are testing a new vaccine (the “Pitt Vaccine”) that may treat polyps and prevent colon cancer in high-risk patients. “By stimulating an immune response against the MUC1 protein in these precancerous growths, we may be able to draw the [...]

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Rectal Cancer 101

Rectal cancer hits the lowest part of the colon, just before the anus, and may affect the mucosa (first layer), the muscularis propia (middle layer), the mescorectum (outer fatty layer) and the lymph nodes (immune system). If left undetected, the colon cancer cell can begin to invade other perfectly healthy organs to become fatal. Each [...]

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Colon Cancer 101

There are five different stages of colon cancer; a cancer that affects the four to five feet of the upper large intestine. In Stage 0, the cancer hasn’t grown past the mucosa of the colon. In Stage I, the cancer has grown through the mucosa but hasn’t spread past the colon wall. In Stage II, [...]

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Be Aware of Colon Cancer Symptoms

The appearance of colon cancer symptoms often go untreated because people assume they’re from something else. For instance, bloody stools are often associated with hemorrhoids. Larger tumors that block the colon can result in constipation or abdominal pain, which one may assume is a reaction to food eaten recently. If the bowel becomes perforated or [...]

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