December 07, 2010
Christine Traxler, MD, Editor
NEW STOOL TEST IS BEST TEST FOR COLON CANCER
The fecal immunochemical test is a new diagnostic test for colon cancer that can be done every year, similar to a fecal occult blood test. It is a relatively inexpensive test called the FIT test that looks at immunochemical ways of detecting colon cancer cells rather than just looking for blood in the stool. It is estimated to pick up about 1400 cases of cancer out of 100,000 individuals.
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TAIWANESE WOMAN SURVIVES COLON CANCER IN HER EIGHTIES
An 82 year old woman, Chang Ho Li-wen, recently won an essay contest regarding her fight with colon cancer in her eighties. She states that maintaining a positive attitude helped her fight colon cancer. She made the decision to live with it with confidence and optimism. She beat the cancer and now works as a hospital volunteer helping others with the same disease get through their issues. Workers say she has a sunny disposition and has remained strong in spite of her illness.
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COLORECTAL CANCER ASSOCIATION HOLDS BALL
Recently the Colorectal Cancer Association held a ball dedicated to those who have survived colorectal cancer and, for those who have not survived. With a theme of "bottoms up", the cancer ball held the event to encourage people to get screened before symptoms occur. One woman waited until she developed troubling symptoms which led to a grade 4 metastatic cancer. Sponsors also note that half of all who are diagnosed with colon cancer will not survive the disease. More publicity on screening for colon cancer is the goal of those supporting the colorectal cancer ball.
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MORE ON ASPIRIN AND COLON CANCER
Doctors feel they are on the brink of a major breakthrough regarding colon cancer with the recent finding that aspirin and salicylates reduce the degree of colorectal cancer in patients who take the drug regularly. The effect of aspirin and salicylates on colon cancer appears to be long term with a study that spanned four separate investigations and 14,000 individuals. If a person used aspirin for an average of six years, their protection against colon cancer lasted up to 20 years. It reduced the risk of developing colon cancer by about 24 percent with a risk of dying of cancer decreased by 35 percent.
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COLON CANCER AFFECTS YOUNG PERSON
Colon cancer victim Dylan Rebeor was sixteen when he was diagnosed with colon cancer. It was his wish for his football teammates, the Columbia Central high school football team (the Lions), to win the state championship. He almost lived long enough to see them take the championship but lost his battle with cancer 8 months after his diagnosis. Diagnosing colon cancer at this early stage in life is uncommon but can happen. His family felt he fought hard to survive but lost his battle with cancer just days before the Lions won the battle for the championship.
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COLON CANCER SYMPTOMS REVEALED
Colon cancer resides in the large bowel and provides symptoms generally related to bowel movements and digestion. There can be blood in the stool, black tarry stools, weight loss, abdominal pain, abdominal cramping and problems with the passage of stool. These things can occur early in the course of the disease or can happen when the cancer has reached its later stages. Not all colon cancers show symptoms until the later stages of the disease. This is why colon cancer screening is so important. Those at risk for colon cancer includes those who have cancer in other body areas, those who have polyps in their colon, those with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, those with a family history of colon cancer or personal history of breast cancer. Those who drink or smoke a lot have a risk of colon cancer.
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The faces of colon cancer are looking younger and younger. The United States Preventative Services Task Force and the American Cancer Society recommend colon cancer screening at the age of 50. Yet, dying of colon cancer at the age of 40 is no longer an exception nor is it a rare phenomenon. There is an increasingly compelling evidence that the incidence of colon cancer among people in their thirties and forties is rising at an alarming rate. Please join me on my quest to get the American Cancer Society and the United States Preventative Task Force to review and change their colon cancer screening guidelines to start colon cancer screening at age 40 for the general population and at 35 for people who have compelling risk factors such as a family history of colon cancer.Effective cancer treatment is nowhere in the horizon, so early detection is the key to survival. One more life needlessly lost to colon cancer is one life too many. The purpose of changing the guidelines as mentioned above is to pave the road to get insurance companies to pay for screening colonoscopies at the ages of 35 and 40. Please sign the petition make sure to forward it to your friends.Your collaboration is greatly appreciated.
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