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Colorectal and Colon Cancer

Cancer that begins in the colon or large intestine is called colon cancer. Cancer that begins in the rectum is called rectal cancer. Cancer that starts in either of these organs may also be called colorectal cancer.

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Presence of a number of diverticula in the colon?

Diverticulosis develops when the diverticula form in the wall of the large intestine. The pouches don't cause symptoms, but they may become infected, and that is when the symptoms occur.

Is stage 4 cancer concerned terminal?

I have a familly member who just diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma. Stage 4 is an advanced stage and usually means that cancer has spread through out the body. This does not mean that is 100% terminal. You need to look at the age of the patient, their over all health and the stage together. You should always be realistic and prepare yourself for the worst but still try to be supportive and hope for the best. If you are asking because you or someone you know has been diagnosed. Then i wish you the best. Make sure to always get more than one opinion on treatment and that you are dealing with specialist. You want someone who specializes on your type of cancer as they will probably have the most information and provide you with the best course of action.

What does CEA levels mean?

CEA is an acronym for carcinoembryonic antigen. Doctors will test the blood for CEA levels if they suspect cancer or to see if cancer treatment is helping.

Why does a person have colon removed?

One of the main reasons someone would want to do a colon cleansing is to detoxify the body naturally to improve digestive health. You can learn more about this at the Wikipedia. Once on the website, type "Colon cleansing" into the search field at the top of the page and press enter to bring up the information.

What do you eat before a colonoscopy?

you can have jello but not red,orange,or purple. Chicken or beef broth. That's all I eat two days before colonoscopy. It really sucks having no food but I heard it's worth the wait. Good luck!

Can you drive a car after a colonoscopy?

You are given a short acting sedative for the colonoscopy. You are not permitted to drive yourself home.

How is colorectal cancer diagnosed?

Diagnosing Breast Cancer

If a doctor suspects breast cancer, there are a number of imaging tests that he or she can perform, including diagnostic and digital (image stored to a computer) mammograms, MRI, ultrasound and ductogram. Additional tests include a nipple discharge exam and a biopsy of the breast.

According to the American Cancer Society, there are also several newer tests "such as scintimammography (technetium sestamibi scans) and tomosynthesis." There are not yet widely used and are still under evaluation for effectiveness.

Medical diagnostic imaging equipment can be used to view the breast tissues for irregularities. This is termed a mammogram.

A biopsy can then be taken of the suspicious tissue mass via needle or surgical procedure to determine if the suspicious tissue is a malignant or benign tumor mass.

If malignant, the cancer is deemed to be a dangerous disease.

Alternative and conventional cancer therapies exist.

Chemotherapy involves taking a known cellular toxic substance and injecting it into the bloodstream of the patient. These toxins kill everything at varying rates. The goal is to kill fast growing cells like cancer tumor cells. Unfortunately hair cells are also fast growing and get killed off by chemotherapy. The human immune system is also fast growing so that it can change and adapt to newly introduced germs-it too is killed off by chemotherapy. By killing the immune system, and poisoning many other types of cells, chemotherapy risks doing too much damage to the entire body by making it defenseless to all sorts of other secondary infectious diseases, and also risks that the cancer spread unchecked by the immune system that would normally attempt to destroy diseased cells.

Chemotherapy is, in effect, giving the person a form of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Should a secondary infection invade or preexist in the body, then the patient will have no defenses to fight off the disease, and will likely die as a result of this other infection.

Numerous alternative therapies often involve electro-medicine such as the Beck Protocol, or Royal Rife radio frequency machine treatments, and numerous diets that can be combined together such as the Budwig diet, and Gerson therapy.

A farmer in Nova Scotia, Canada re-discovered that THC Hemp Oil could be used to treat cancer. (Video search >The Rick Simpson Story<) Medical studies being carried out in Europe, outside the influence of the Rockefellers / drug / medical monopoly have been able to conduct more scientific medical studies of THC from cannabis / marijuana that have been forbidden in the USA and Canada due to the baseless ban on the substance that initially started in 1937 immediately after the 1936 propaganda film about 'Reefer Madness.' The aggression that was supposedly brought about by cannabis was falsified supposedly by people within the US government (JP. Morgan - Rockefeller CFR). Critical information available on the internet have indicated that medical studies were falsified to indicate brain damage would result from smoking marijuana--search >Heath brain marijuana smoke asphyxiation "rhesus monkey" "carbon monoxide poisoning"< A facts / fictions / myths web document about cannabis indicates as the DEA web site says that marijuana is addictive, but as the DEA web site fails to indicate, the addiction is less powerful than that of coffee addiction.

There are so many suppressed cancer cures that work that it is not funny. Some of these can be safely combined, but you must know what you are doing and know who can help you.

Alternative medicine is about treating the cause of the disease and not the symptoms.

The Flaxseed (Linseed) oil and cottage cheese diet was originally proposed by Dr. Johanna Budwig, a German biochemist and expert on fats and oils, and recently re-examined by Dr. Dan C. Roehm M.D. FACP (Oncologist and former cardiologist) in 1990. Dr. Roehm claims: "this diet is far and away the most successful anti-cancer diet in the world."

Six time Nobel award nominated doctor says this essential nutrient combination actually prevents and cures cancer...

Dr. Max Gerson, M.D., came to America in the early 1900s. He believed in a holistic approach to health and invented for his own condition of migraine headaches the "Gerson therapy." Lots of Google videos exist for this therapy. The patient is analyzed for toxins and other things. The diet is customized somewhat for each patient, but usually consists of meals of cooked vegetables, coffee enemas, and drinking a large freshly juiced glass of fruit and vegetable juice about every 15 minutes or so all during the day. About 40 pounds of organically grown fresh food are juiced per day per patient. The amount of nutrients and fluids going through the patient's body is enormous. Coffee is a diuretic. When it is used as an enema fluid, it forces the kidneys to express more urine than they might normally, thereby supposedly greatly increasing the detoxification effects of the diet. The diet is said to dissolve scare tissue from old injuries, as well as eliminating many types of chronic illness.

Royal Raymond Rife was a clever optician and electrical tinkerer who developed a powerful microscope supposedly capable of seeing live viruses, and discovered two different cancer viruses in the early 1930s. Rife got funding from a rich magnate named Timken who manufactured roller bearings where Rife had developed an automated X-ray method of detecting flaws in the bearings, and rejecting the bad ones. So during the 1930s depression, with this money Rife ran a medical experimentation lab to identify microbial causes of disease.

Using some of the operating principles of his microscopes that stained his samples with various monochromatic filtered colors of light, Rife supposedly developed a medium frequency radio wave method of killing microbial pathogens.

Rife's first system used an amplifier that had about 500 watts input power into the output radio vacuum tube. Rife started the Beam Ray Corporation for radio frequency medical machine manufacturing. The AMA and their sponsors wanted to control Rife's treatment. They sent in agents (supposedly some brothers last name starts with H) who made Rife various offers. Rife refused probably thinking that his inventions would be suppressed. There afterwards Rife found himself in trouble doing his R & D and manufacturing of this medical equipment because his doctor clients were being threatened with losing their medical licenses if they did not stop successfully using the devices to treat cancer and a wide variety of other diseases that were at least in part caused or assisted by microbial infections of one sort or another. Rife had probably sold and trained 30 medical doctors in the use of his machine in California and nearby states, and maybe several doctors out side of the USA, including a doctor from Montreal, Canada. Whether Rife knew that some of these tiny organisms were exactly mycoplasmas, or viruses, or bacteria, he could only determine that some of these were able to pass through extremely fine medical grade porcelain filters. Much of the time Rife referred to these as filter-passing organisms / forms of disease. Rife supposedly documented and proved many times over that he could isolate a disease organism known to be bacterial, grow it in glass containers, at some stage in its life cycle be able to have the microbe in filter passing form (what Rife at the time said was likely a virus), then inject it in otherwise healthy animals to give them the disease as well. Without any basis in scientific observational fact, doctors in the employ of the Rockefeller family pooh-poohed the entire idea that the microbial forms of certain diseases had more than one life cycle form (pleomorphic forms). These were Dr. Thomas M. Rivers and pathologist Hans Zinsser of the Rockefeller Institute.

No other microscopes of the time could (and very few microscopes can even now) be used to view live "virus sized" particles other that Rife's own custom-made devices, so based on nothing, Rivers, looking through his own optical lab microscopes that were incapable of viewing virus size particles and then lied that he could not replicate the viral forms described in the published experimental results of Dr. Author I. Kendall of Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, and Rife (PMID: 18741967, PMID: 17782489) , calling them both liars to their face.

An agent of AMA head Dr. Morris Fishbein (with the go ahead from his sponsors) supposedly provided $10,000 to Rife's business partner, radio engineering technician Phillip Hoyland, to file a lawsuit against Beam Ray Corp / Rife to have the AMA agent(s) placed on the board of directors of the company. Rife won the lawsuit, but the stress of the trial drove Rife to abuse alcohol. Fishbein testified under oath in 1938 that he had never practiced medicine in his life, and did not complete his requisite internship at medical school.

Later, one State of California AMA medical board doctor had the Rife devices banned when he took the stand and testified that they were unsafe, even though declared safe by several engineering and medical labs. Once this happened, the police authorities confiscated and destroyed the Rife Beam Ray devices from Rife's lab and the medical doctors who had previously refused to give them up.

My understanding of Rife's and others' written notes indicates that the microorganisms that fostered malignancy seemed to either make or eat or coalesce around deposits of toxins. When the microorganisms are killed off, they release the toxins that they have harbored, thereby killing the cancerous tumor cells- -acting like a highly targeted magic bullet to kill the cancer. However, the toxins still remain in the body, (Rife himself said that the toxins by themselves could be injected into a second healthy lab animal to cause the same cancer,) and can migrate elsewhere and cause cancer to form elsewhere. Therefore, the Rife treatment machine is acting like a painless surgery to stop cancer in one place, while likely letting the toxic cause to "spread" elsewhere. A combined treatment would be to detoxify as much as possible before, during, and after such Rife treatments. One Australian alternative practitioner said that he combined Rife, the Beck protocol, and H. R. Clark's herbal treatments.

Lately a published medical study of 163 Swiss late stage cancer patients was performed using radio frequency radiation. Frequency dependent settings were found to affect the tumors, and the associated pain from them. Search >Alexandre Barbault Lausanne Switzerland< Or see Pub Med PMID: 19366446.

What is the symptom of stomach cancer?

Early on, stomach cancer may cause: Indigestion Feeling bloated after you eat a meal Heartburn Slight nausea Loss of appetite Just having indigestion or heartburn after a meal doesn't mean you have cancer. But if you feel these symptoms a lot, talk to your doctor. He can see if you have other risk factors and test you to look for any problems. As stomach tumors grow, you may have more serious symptoms, such as: Stomach pain Blood in your stool Vomiting Weight loss for no reason Trouble swallowing Yellowish eyes or skin Swelling in your stomach Constipation or diarrhea Weakness or feeling tired Heartburn

What information should the physician know about the patient before a colonoscopy?

allergies to any medications or anesthetics, bleeding problems, or is pregnant. The doctor should be informed of all the medications the patient is taking

should a person not take medications/prescriptions prior to the procedure..perhaps, causing drug interactions that are administered before or during the procedure?

What color ribbons are for what cancers?

Yellow - Bladder cancer

Grey - Brain cancer

Pink - Breast cancer

White - Cervical cancer

Gold - Childhood cancers

Dark blue - Colon cancer

Burgundy & Ivory - Head & Neck cancer

Lavender - General Cancer

Kelly Green - Kidney

Orange - Leukemia

Clear - Lung

Lime Green - Lymphoma

Black - Melanoma

Burgundy - Multiple Myeloma

Teal - Ovarian

Purple - Pancreatic cancer

Blue - Prostate cancer

Light Yellow - Sarcoma/Bone

Peach - Uterine cancer

Why no alcohol after colonoscopy?

Colonoscopies and the preparations for them remove much of the mucous that protects the intestinal tract. Without it, alcohol (which kills unprotected cell tissue) will burn the inside of your intestines.

Can cancer be transmitted by saliva?

No form of cancer is contagious. Leukemia is a cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causgees large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.

Even if your body would come into contact with one of these abnormal cells, it would simply attack the cell and get rid of it with white blood cells, the body's defense team.

How can you tell if you have colon cancer?

Symptoms of colon cancer can include blood in the stool, change in bowel habits, and discomfort in the abdominal region. It is best to see a doctor to diagnose the issue because colon cancer can be deadly.

Can a colonoscopy hurt?

the sedative and the pain medications will keep the patient very drowsy and relaxed. Most patients complain of minor discomfort and pressure from the colonoscope moving inside. However, the procedure is not painful.

Are there any risks with a colonoscopy?

The procedure is virtually free of any complications and risks. Rarely, (two in 1,000 cases) a perforation (a hole) may occur in the intestinal wall.

What can you tell me about stage 3 lung cancer?

Diaphragm cancer, or any cancer that is classified as stage 3 means it has spread to the lymph nodes. The lymph nodes accelerate the spread of the disease.

When does a diagnostic colonoscopy code include?

When I had mine they listed separate codes for upper and lower even though it was all one event. There was also a code for a lesion they found in there.

How is chemotherapy made?

Chemotherapy refers to the use of cytotoxic drugs in cancer treatment.'Chemo' means medicine or 'drug''therapy' means 'treatment'.

Chemotherapeutic agents or drugs are 'magic bullets' that destroy the fast-dividing cancer cells. However these drugs are unable to differentiate between the normal cells and the cancer cells and they destroy the former too, in their war against cancer. This leads to certain side effects.

What is a biohazard?

A biohazard container is something that is used by hospitals and clinics to dispose of hazardous materials. Needles, band aids, blood soaked sheets and clothing, and pick lines are thrown away using these containers.

What does Colonoscopy examine?

A Colonoscopy is used to visually examine your entire colon and rectum for abnormalities.

For the exam, a colonoscope which is a long, flexible tube about the thickness of a finger is inserted into your rectum. A tiny video camera and light at its tip allows your doctor to view the inside of your colon. The pictures come up on a video screen the doctor watches as he/she moves the tube to where the suspected problem is. Both air and water can be added through the tube by the doctor to inflate and wash the area to get a better picture.

A colonoscopy can be relatively painless but anxiety often dictates the use of a mild sedative during the procedure.

A gastroenterologist most often performs the exam.

How are Rectal polyps found?

Rectal polyps are commonly found by sigmoidoscopy (visual inspection with an instrument consisting of a tube and a light) or colonoscopy