Wednesday, April 8, 2009

How does the doctor screen u for colon cancer


How does the doctor screen u for colon cancer?
And what r the symptoms of colon cancer?
Cancer - 8 Answers
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Camera up your arse.
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If you fart a lot, you probably don't have it.
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The doctor will perform a colonoscopy.
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A small camera on a long flexable stick straight up the pooper. Usually, blood in the stool is the only symptom, but sometimes there is pain I think. I saw it on tv.
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The first thing is to have a digital rectal exam. The doctor will smear the finger that is used onto a little card that is then tested for any signs of blood in your stool. It will come up positive or negative. Then, after 40, you should have a yearly colonoscopy. You will be given meds to put you under and then the doctor puts a scope into your rectum and up into your lower intestines to check for any polyps, growths or abnormalities. This is absolutely essential for anyone over the age of 40. As a radiation oncology nurse, trust me, having a colonoscopy once a year is much less painful than colon cancer.
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with a colonoscopy
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colon cancer is screen by ultrasonography of abdomen. symptoms like mainly diarrhea. whatever patient it will come out in defecation.
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i had a carcinoid tumor in my appendix without knowing. all of a sudden i felt sick and it felt like cramps and food poisoning times 10, so i did the cat scan thing and had the surgery asap. it just happened out of the blue for me.






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