Friday, April 13, 2018
Colon
cancer is basically a cancer of large intestine that is known as colon
in medical terms
Colon happens to be the final part of your digestive tract.
Most of the cases of colon
cancer begin as small and benign clumps of cells that are called adenomatous polyps. If the case worsens
then these polyps can convert into colon cancer.
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Friday, March 16, 2018
Most of the symptoms of colorectal cancer, also known as
colon cancer or bowel cancer, can be caused by things that aren’t cancer like hemorrhoids,
infection, inflammatory bowel disease or irritable bowel syndrome.
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Friday, February 16, 2018
Science today proves that the man was right! Some of the most major begin somewhere in the gut. Obesity, for example, in one of the leading causes of deaths in humans. An average human consumes almost 500 kg of food every year, 11.5 litres of digested food passes through the digestive tract every day, of which only 100 ml is lost through feaces. To digest these enormous numbers, our mouth produces 32 ounces of saliva each day. It is one of the busiest systems of the body in terms of workload.
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Friday, January 26, 2018
Cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths around the
globe. 8.8 million people fall victim to the disease every year according to
World Health Organization statistics. Colorectal cancer, the cancer of the
colon and rectum, is the third most common type of cancer resulting in 774,000
deaths. There are multiple types of cancer that are caused by a host of
different factors ranging from bacterial or viral infections that are left
unchecked, smoking and ultra violet radiations etc.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
If you are preparing for a
colonoscopy, you may be wondering why you need the clear diet and what exactly
that means.
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Saturday, July 22, 2017
Last month we discussed the differences in types of
colorectal cancers. As we mentioned,
many people are surprised to learn that anal cancer is actually a completely
different type of cancer.
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
If you are concerned about a loved one or even your own health and you take to the internet to do some research, you could quickly become confused. Colorectal cancer. Colon cancer. Rectal cancer. Anal cancer. There are a lot of terms for cancers that seem to affect a small part of the body!
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Monday, May 22, 2017
Colon cancer may be an uncomfortable topic to discuss, but the alternatives are far worse. In an effort to raise awareness and promote screening, the American Cancer Society declared March as Colon Cancer Awareness month, but at the Colon and Rectal Disease Center, we address this subject each and every day.
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