Posts Tagged ‘Colon Cancer’

Can a cancer drug help treat Diabetes?

It turns out that there are signs that a current treatment for Colon Cancer may actually help people who have diabetes. Cancer therapy – and many therapies really – can produce surprising combinations this way sometimes. We may discover, for example, that one medication which is good for one thing is actually good for something […]

Cigarette smoking and Colon Cancer

Inheriting a gene that increases one’s risk for the development of cancer is like inheriting a loaded gun. That gun never needs to go off unless someone or something pulls the trigger. When we think of cigarette smoking and the health risks that come with that activity, we think of lung cancer, emphysema and other […]

Colon Cancer Stages

When someone is discovered to have colon cancer, an important question that needs to be answered is “how much has the cancer spread by the time it was discovered”? The system that physicians have agreed upon to answer this question is by separating the amount of spread of the colon cancer into what are known […]

Colon Cancer Symptoms

Colon Cancer is a very important medical problem which affects thousands of people yearly. There are some clues or symptoms that a person can exhibit which may give us an early indication that that person may or may not have colon cancer.

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