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Feb 8, 2010, Colon Surgery

Colon surgery can be done to remove benign or cancerous lesions of the colon. Doctors can do laparoscopic surgery or open surgery, depending on the type of lesion to be removed.

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Feb 1, 2010, Top Cancer Hospitals

If you’ve been recently diagnosed with cancer, you have a lot of decisions to make. You want to go to the very best place available to you for your cancer treatment. The top cancer hospitals have specialists that are the best in their field of cancer care. If you have colon cancer...

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Jan 27, 2010, Colon Cancer Survival Stories

Early detection is the key to surviving colon cancer. Survival does not mean that you are cured or that your treatment is completed if you have this illness. It means that a percentage of people...

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Jan 27, 2010, Colonoscopy Experiences

According to the recent studies, American men have a 44% chance of developing cancer while the chances for women are about 37%. The general risk of developing colon cancer in the United States is...

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Jan 27, 2010, colon tumor removeable

My sister has colon cancer and received radiation before surgery, she has a new tumor the size of your fist in the same area, biopsy didn't

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Jan 27, 2010, cancer of the jejunum

Hi my husband gary has cancer of the jejunum.he responds well to chemo,but the cancer grows back as soon as the treatment has stopped. I saw on your

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Jan 27, 2010, Colonoscopy prep diet

Can you have a fruit smoothie the day before a

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Jan 27, 2010, colon cancer

I am diagnosed with colon cancer, what is my next

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Jan 27, 2010, stage 4 colon cancer

do you do chemotherapy before the surgery?

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Jan 27, 2010, Colon Cancer Surgery

What is the recuperation time after

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Jan 27, 2010, colon cancer and diet

My husband had colon cancer 7 years ago. The surgeon told him in Dec 09 that changing his diet now is hopeless (he is 72) because of his age and the

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Jan 27, 2010, Colon cancer misdiagnoses--Too little too late?

I just lost my sister to colon cancer at age 64. She had a lot of abdominal pain which was repeatedly misdiagnosed and/or dismissed by her doctors.

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Jan 19, 2010, Polyps in Colon

Polyps in the colon may or may not lead to cancer. Most polyps on the colon need to be removed on the chance that they could lead to cancer. Some families have members with multiple polyps on their colons. These families need careful follow-up...

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Jan 5, 2010, Disadvantages of Virtual Colonoscopy

A disadvantage of virtual colonoscopy is that it can only find pedunculated polyps, which are those on a stalk. This means the test isn’t good for picking up flat colon polyps. Also, if a polyp is found...

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Dec 29, 2009, Rectal exam - Anal itches

A few years ago, my intern doctor told me to go to OB/GYN and she said it was not her job to give me a rectal exam. I wonder why OB/GYN did not

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