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Q: How do I help an 88 year old with stage 4 metastasize colon cancer and bowl problems?
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should one who had a colonoscopy 6 yrs. ago should now be diagnoses with stage 4 colon cancer & be told that it is adenocarcinoma & not colorectal cancer?

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