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Colonoscopy Defined

Test to look into the rectum and colon through a long, flexible, narrow tube (called a colonoscope) with a light and tiny lens on the end.

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Early And Accurate Detection Of Bowel Cancer With RanplexCRC - Detects 28 Polymorphisms Associated With Colorectal ...

Published September 7, 2008, 3:14 am, Medical News Today

RanplexCRC is a diagnostic test that can detect 28 polymorphisms associated with colorectal cancer in a single stool sample. It does not require a hospital visit or dietary restrictions, while having greater sensitivity than the currently used Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) screening test.

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Colon Cancer As Preventable As It Is Deadly

Published September 5, 2008, 8:57 pm, WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul

Colon cancer is a disease that's touched the WCCO family too much this year.

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Screening rules may miss cancer in people with IBD

Published September 5, 2008, 8:27 am, Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The diagnosis of colorectal cancer will be delayed or missed in a substantial number of people who suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) if surveillance colonoscopy is conducted strictly according to official guidelines, investigators from the Netherlands warn in a report published this month.

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Rural healthcare access

Published September 5, 2008, 6:24 am, Bakercityherald.com

The second of a three-part series about the health impacts of living in rural Oregon.

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Prescription drug help coming to Harleysville

Published September 5, 2008, 6:11 am, Bucks County Courier Times

The Montel Williams Pharma Bus, in partnership with the North Penn United Way, will be stopping in Indian Valley Wednesday to assist individuals who struggle with the high cost of prescriptions and pharmaceutical drugs.

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Physicians Say Insurers Intrude on Treatment

Published September 4, 2008, 11:44 pm, ThirdAge

Aug. 24, 2008 -- When a patient steps into a doctor"s office, he trusts that the only thing on his physician"s mind is how to make him better. But physicians across the United States fear that increasingly stringent insurance rules and the frequent second-guessing of doctors" orders are eroding the doctor-patient relationship.

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I don't want to shop for doctors

Published September 4, 2008, 10:14 pm, Erie Times-News

QI would like to tell you my story about how I wish I had gotten a general practitioner but instead opted for an internist because they supposedly know "everything." What a mistake that was!

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Parts of the Body Involved

Published September 4, 2008, 9:59 pm, ThirdAge

Your colon must be completely cleaned out before the procedure. Any stool left in the colon will block the doctor's view and limit the procedure's success. A number of cleansing methods may be used, including enemas, laxatives, and a clear-liquid diet.

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Stand Up To Cancer

Published September 4, 2008, 3:54 pm, KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches

Cancer education program reaches nationwide to here in East Texas.

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Stand Up To Cancer

Published September 4, 2008, 3:35 pm, KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches

East Texas (KTRE) - An historic collaboration in network news will happen tomorrow evening. ABC, CBS, and NBC are donating an hour of simultaneous commercial-free prime time for a special program called, 'Stand Up To Cancer.

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  • Dave Barry's Colonoscopy Journal: ... sent me this today in an attempt to cheer me up and break my nervousness over my impending colonoscopy. BUT, I almost don't need a colonoscopy NOW.....I think I just had one reading this. ROFLMAO...

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