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How Your Gut Microbiome Affects Your Colorectal Cancer Risk
Read More: How Your Gut Microbiome Affects Your Colorectal Cancer Risk+ Video text Video/Image Voiceover/Audio Meet Your Microbiome Graphic: Animated zoom into the gut showing trillions of tiny animated microbes floating around. Graphic: infographic-style animations pop up: stomach for digestion, shield for immune function, fire symbol fading for inflammation, and smile face for mood. Your gut is home to trillions of microscopic organisms, including bacteria,…
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Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Early-Onset Colorectal CancerMarch is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer was once considered rare in young people, but 1 out of 5 diagnoses are now given to people under the age of 55. Known as โearly-onset colorectal cancerโ or โyoung-onset colorectal cancer,โ these diagnoses refer to colorectal cancer found in people under the age of 50.…
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FAQs About Colorectal Cancer Biomarkers
Read More: FAQs About Colorectal Cancer BiomarkersYour body is full of information that can give you a clearer picture of whatโs going on inside it. Sometimes you just need the right book of translations to understand what itโs trying to tell you. For cancer, biomarkers (short for biological markers) can be that translator. Biomarkers are useful tools to help you and…
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Mental Health Ups and Downs With Colon Cancer
Read More: Mental Health Ups and Downs With Colon Cancer+ Flipbook text Slide 1 Mental Health Ups and Downs With Colon Cancer Living with colon cancer may be hard on your mental health, but knowing what to expect may help Slide 2 Waiting for a Diagnosis If youโre concerned that you have colon cancer, waiting for an answer can be hard. As you wait,…
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El bueno, el malo y corre al baรฑo: Quรฉ hacer antes y despuรฉs de tu colonoscopรญa
Read More: El bueno, el malo y corre al baรฑo: Quรฉ hacer antes y despuรฉs de tu colonoscopรญaEnglish + Flipbook text Slide 1 ย El bueno, el malo y corre al baรฑo: Quรฉ hacer antes y despuรฉs de tu colonoscopรญaย La colonoscopรญa y la recuperaciรณn usualmente son fรกciles. ยฟEl dรญa anterior? Prepรกrate para una noche memorable en el baรฑo. Slide 2 La semana antes de tu colonoscopรญa Recoge tu preparaciรณn para la…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Bathroom Dash: What to Do Before and After Your Colonoscopy
Read More: The Good, the Bad, and the Bathroom Dash: What to Do Before and After Your Colonoscopy+ Flipbook text Slide 1ย The Good, the Bad, and the Bathroom Dash: What to Do Before and After Your Colonoscopy The colonoscopy and the recovery are usually easy. The day before? Get ready for a memorable evening in the bathroom. Slide 2 The week before your colonoscopy Pick up your prep. Youโll take it…
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Your Guide to Colon Cancer Screening Tests
Read More: Your Guide to Colon Cancer Screening TestsMedically reviewed by Ayanna Lewis, M.D. Getting screened is the best way to lower your risk of colon cancer, a disease that affects 1 in 25 women and is the second-leading cause of cancer death in women under 50. The good news โ particularly for those who really dread the idea of a colonoscopy โ…
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Treatment Options for Colon Cancer
Read More: Treatment Options for Colon CancerMedically reviewed by Chloe Atreya, M.D. + Infographic text Colon cancer, also called colorectal cancer, is one of the most common cancers in the US.ย There are several treatment options and the best treatment depends on how far the cancer has progressed. Sometimes, more than one treatment option is combined.ย Surgery Polypectomy A special tool…
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I Was “Too Young” to Have Colon Cancer
Read More: I Was “Too Young” to Have Colon CancerAs told to Shannon Shelton Miller I was thrilled to be pregnant with my first child at 29. Everything went well for about eight months โ until the day I went to the restroom and the toilet was full of blood. I immediately called my OB-GYN because I was scared something was wrong with my…
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As a Mom, I Always Put My Needs Last โ Until Stage 4 Colon Cancer Showed Up
Read More: As a Mom, I Always Put My Needs Last โ Until Stage 4 Colon Cancer Showed UpAs told to Erica Rimlinger As my mind groggily surfaced from anesthesia-induced sleep, my mom sounded far away as she delivered the news. โThe doctor couldnโt do the operation,โ she said. โThere was too much cancer.” The next thing I remember was a kind chaplain entering my hospital room. Her presence made me feel at…
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DIY: Hemorrhoids Self-Care
Read More: DIY: Hemorrhoids Self-CareDo you take your smartphone into the bathroom with you? Those few minutes alone may seem like the perfect time to catch up on social media, er, the latest news. But all that swiping can lead to more time spent sitting on the toilet. And that can lead to hemorrhoids โ painful, swollen veins or…
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Can Racial Bias Limit Access to Colon Cancer Screening and Treatment for Women of Color?
Read More: Can Racial Bias Limit Access to Colon Cancer Screening and Treatment for Women of Color?For almost eight months, Jenna Scott had the ideal pregnancy. Then the bleeding, dizziness and abdominal pain started. Scott, 29, feared something was wrong with her baby, but her OB-GYN told her everything was fine after her appointment. Her baby could be sitting on her organs or perhaps she was experiencing typical pregnancy-induced hemorrhoids. The…
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La conexiรณn entre adultos jรณvenes y el cรกncer de colon
Read More: La conexiรณn entre adultos jรณvenes y el cรกncer de colonEnglish Jill MacDonald, embajadora de Fight Colorectal Cancer [Lucha contra el cรกncer colorrectal], tenรญa 37 aรฑos cuando le diagnosticaron cรกncer colorrectal (tambiรฉn conocido como cรกncer de colon) de etapa 4 en 2015. โHe lidiado con esto desde hace mรกs de nueve aรฑosโ, dijo MacDonald. โMe he sometido a un nรบmero inimaginable de tratamientos de quimioterapia,…
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The Connection Between Young Adults and Colon Cancer
Read More: The Connection Between Young Adults and Colon CancerJill MacDonald, now an ambassador for Fight Colorectal Cancer, was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer (also known as colon cancer) in 2015. โI have been dealing with this for over nine years now,โ MacDonald said. โI have been through an unimaginable number of chemotherapy treatments, radiation, surgeries, procedures…
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No If, Ands or Butts: All Things Colon Cancer โ Webinar
Read More: No If, Ands or Butts: All Things Colon Cancer โ WebinarThis educational resource was created with support from Merck.
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Whoโs Most at Risk for Colorectal Cancer?
Read More: Whoโs Most at Risk for Colorectal Cancer?Jennifer Jones, the first Black woman to become a member of the Radio City Rockettes, had always been the healthy one in her family. On the eve of her 50th birthday, she was an avid runner and dancer, and had been a vegetarian for more than 25 years. She said she felt great when the…
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Meg se hace una colonoscopia
Read More: Meg se hace una colonoscopiaAyanna Lewis, M.D., hizo la revisiรณn mรฉdica de este documento + Infographic text Imagen Palabras โฆ 3 dรญas antesย A woman, Meg, around age 45 whose race is ambiguous, is receiving a RX at the pharmacy La farmacรฉutica: Asรญ que te estรกs haciendo una colonoscopia. Te felicito. Aquรญ estรก tu medicamento para la limpieza de…
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Meg Gets a Colonoscopy
Read More: Meg Gets a ColonoscopyMedically reviewed by Ayanna Lewis, M.D. Tip: Click the oval at the bottom to view in full-screen. View PDF here. + Pdf text โฆ 3 days before A woman, Meg, around age 45 whose race is ambiguous, is receiving a RX at the pharmacy Pharmacist: So, youโre having a colonoscopy? Good for you. Hereโs your…
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You Canโt Choose Your Genes
Read More: You Canโt Choose Your GenesAs told to Erica Rimlinger I was 41 and had spent a lovely day visiting with my mother at her home in Victoria, Canada. As she said goodnight and closed the guest room door, she lobbed a bomb: โYour brother has cancer. Good night!โ Did she think I could just go to sleep after hearing…
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cancer, Colon cancer, Espanol, Prevenciรณn, Prevenciรณn y exรกmenes, Prevenciones, Prevention, Preventive health
Cรกncer colorrectal 101
Read More: Cรกncer colorrectal 101El Dr. Robert Nagourney hizo la revisiรณn mรฉdica de este documento Marzo es el mes de concientizaciรณn del cรกncer colorrectal a nivel nacional. El cรกncer colorrectal se origina en el colon o en el recto, y tambiรฉn se conoce como cรกncer rectal o de colon, dependiendo de en quรฉ lugar se encontraron por primera vez…
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Cรณmo manejar un diagnรณstico de cรกncer colorrectal
Read More: Cรณmo manejar un diagnรณstico de cรกncer colorrectalMarzo es el mes de concientizaciรณn del cรกncer colorrectal a nivel nacional. Jamie VandenAvond notรณ sangre en su materia fecal a principios de 2021. Se preocupรณ un poco, pero tambiรฉn tenรญa que cuidar un bebรฉ reciรฉn nacido en medio de la pandemia, asรญ que hizo una nota mental de llamar a su doctor. Luego Jamie…
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cancer, Cancer survivor, Colon cancer, Medical tests, Prevention, Preventive health, Real women real stories
My Symptoms Were Dismissed as Hemorrhoids, but I Had Colon Cancer
Read More: My Symptoms Were Dismissed as Hemorrhoids, but I Had Colon CancerAs told to Liz Sauchelli The day I got my colon cancer diagnosis, my husband and I bought a bottle of champagne. We were driving home from the hospital crying and I just said, โBabe, we need to stop and get a bottle of champagne because weโre going to toast to kicking cancerโs butt and…
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cancer, Cancer survivor, Colon cancer, Medical tests, Prevention, Preventive health, Real women real stories
When I was 32, I Was Getting Ready to Marry and Have Kids. Then I Was Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer.
Read More: When I was 32, I Was Getting Ready to Marry and Have Kids. Then I Was Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer.As told to Erica Rimlinger After photographing weddings for 10 years, I was preparing to put my camera down and pick up a bridal bouquet for my own wedding day. I was excited to see all my family and friends at my upcoming bridal shower, and I was really excited to marry my wonderful fiancรฉ.…
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We Need to Talk About Colorectal Cancer
Read More: We Need to Talk About Colorectal CancerMedically reviewed by Dr. Robert NagourneyDesigned by Megan Schofield
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Navigating a Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis
Read More: Navigating a Colorectal Cancer DiagnosisMarch is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In early 2021, Jamie VandenAvond noticed blood in her stool. She was a little concerned, but she was also preoccupied with taking care of a newborn baby in the middle of the pandemic, so she just made a mental note to call her doctor. Then VandenAvond began having…
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Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Colorectal Cancer Screening
Read More: Fast Facts: What You Need to Know About Colorectal Cancer ScreeningMedically reviewed by Dr. Robert Nagourney Colorectal cancer โ often called colon cancer โ occurs when cells in the colon or rectum grow rapidly. The colon is also known as the large intestine or bowel. In the United States, colon cancer is one of the most common cancers. About 1 in 25 women (and 1…
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Colorectal Cancer 101
Read More: Colorectal Cancer 101Medically reviewed by Dr. Robert Nagourney Colorectal cancer begins in the colon or the rectum, and is also called colon or rectal cancer, depending on where cancer cells are first found. The colon is the part of the large intestine that food moves through, and the rectum is the lower part of the colon where…
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Colorful Sweets May Look Tasty, but Some Researchers Question Whether Synthetic Dyes May Pose Health Risks to Your Colon and Rectum
Read More: Colorful Sweets May Look Tasty, but Some Researchers Question Whether Synthetic Dyes May Pose Health Risks to Your Colon and RectumBy Lorne J. Hofseth, University of South Carolina Early-onset colorectal cancer incidence among the young, defined as those under age 50, has been rising globally since the early 1990s. Rates for colon and rectal cancers are expected to increase by 90% and 124%, respectively, by 2030. One suspected reason behind this trend is increased global…
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Chadwick Bosemanโs Death From Colorectal Cancer Underscores an Alarming Increase in Cases Among Younger Adults as Well as Health Gaps for African Americans
Read More: Chadwick Bosemanโs Death From Colorectal Cancer Underscores an Alarming Increase in Cases Among Younger Adults as Well as Health Gaps for African AmericansBy Franklin G. Berger, University of South Carolina The tragic death of Chadwick Boseman at age 43 following a four-year battle against colorectal cancer underscores two important public health concerns. First, the incidence of colorectal cancer has risen dramatically among adults under age 50 in the U.S. and in many countries around the world. Second,…
