Instructions are given for how to prepare for the procedure. This includes what to tell your doctor before the procedure, how to drink the bowel preparation solution and what happens before and during the procedure. A video clip from a colonoscopy exam is shown.
Visuals help show how a colonoscopy procedure is the only screening tool that can examine the entire length of the colon. Other conditions that colonoscopy can detect are discussed.
MD Anderson's Cancer Prevention Center provides cancer screening exams to help detect cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. One of these exams is called colonoscopy.
June 5-11 at MD Anderson we took time to celebrate cancer survivors and their caregivers. There were balloons and pins and activities in common areas all over the hospital. But the atmosphere of celebration and hope resonated from the survivors
MD Anderson researchers play crucial role in two New England Journal of Medicine studies showing newer drugs for chronic myeloid leukemia work faster and better than imatinib (GleevecŪ).
A new surgery for children with rare abdominal tumors has shown to increase survival. Andrea Hayes-Jordan, M.D., from MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital, leads the study published in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery and is the first and only to perform the procedure, known as HIPEC, in North America.
Pat McWaters is an MD Anderson volunteer and a stage 4 metastatic breast cancer patient. She talks about her work as a volunteer and how her her own experiences in treatment helps other patients.
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By: petalaroma. on 09 Mar 10, 07:56:11
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