Colorectal Cancer Awareness
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month!
Do yourself a favor- get over the embarrassment and have that colonoscopy.
Colonoscopy reduces your chance of dying from colorectal cancer. A study
found that reductions were greater for screening colonoscopy than for
diagnostic colonoscopy, and results were similar for men and women. Read
<http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/hulUCvkeswovmouYfCwjiMcOaZWw> the abstract.
Healio (free registration)/Gastroenterology
<http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/hulUCvkeswovmovkfCwjiMcOkdlh?format=standard>
And if you've had your colonoscopy already, then send someone you love a
screen-a-gram to get their "rear in gear."
http://screeningsaves.org/screen-a-gram/
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Archive:
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- March (10)
- Did you know? Food
- Did you know? Celiac disease
- Did you know? Upper endoscopy
- What Happens After a Colonoscopy?
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Did you know! - Digestive Food
- Advantages of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy
- Caffeine stimulates gastrointestinal tract motility
- Hydrochloric acid
- Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
- February (14)
- Who is not a candidate for the Bravo pH Monitoring System?
- Crohn’s disease is part of a group of digestive conditions called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
- Did you know? An adult female’s small intestine is longer than the average adult male’s.
- Colorectal Cancer Awareness
- Dress in Blue Day
- Celiac Disease
- DigestiveHealth
- Capsule Endoscopy
- Effects of coffee, Vitamin C on liver disease
- Spicy Food
- Borborygmi
- Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Complications
- Screening finds CRC at earlier stages
- Colorectal Cancers
- 2015
- August (8)
- Fatty Foods
- Did you know: Hydrochloric acid
- What should I expect post colonoscopy?
- Did you know: Within the colon
- What you eat can contribute to digestive problems
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography, or ERCP
- Eliminating Helicobacter pylori may cut cancer risk
- Recommendations issued for Clostridium difficile prevention
- 2014
- 2013