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Colon Cancer
Alternate Names : Cancer - Colon, Colorectal Cancer
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Calling Your Health Care Provider
Colon cancer is, in almost all cases, a treatable disease if caught early. Removal of premalignant polyps by colonoscopy essentially prevents colon cancer. Any man or woman age 50 or over who has not had a colonoscopy should call his or her physician to schedule one.
Additionally, call your physician if you develop blood in the stool (either visible blood or blood detected by a home fecal occult blood test), black tarry stool, or a change in bowel habits. However, it is important to emphasize that most people with colon cancer have no symptoms.
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• Definition
• Colon Cancer Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
• Colon Cancer Symptoms & Signs
• Colon Cancer Prevention
• Colon Cancer Diagnosis & Tests
• Colon Cancer Treatment
• Colon Cancer Prognosis
• Colon Cancer Complications
• Colon Cancer Support Groups
• Calling Your Health Care Provider
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• Anemia
• Cancer
• Colorectal Polyps
• Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Intestinal Obstruction
• Melanoma
• Ulcerative Colitis
Tests & Exams
• Colonoscopy
• Fecal Occult Blood Test (FOBT)
• Flushable Reagent Stool Blood Test
• Sigmoidoscopy
• Stool Guaiac Test
Other Topics
• Abdominal Pain
• Bloody or Tarry Stools
• Cancer - Resources
• Diarrhea
• Fat
• Metastasis
• Weight Loss - Unintentional
Review Date : 2/3/2003
Reviewed By : Robert J. Green, M.D., M.S.C.E., Division of Oncology, Good Samaritan Medical Center, West Palm Beach, FL. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
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