Marshall County Commission Chairman Doug Fleming is seeking treatments related to two types of cancer. Fleming recently had a sarcoma tumor removed from his leg. While doctors were treating him for the sarcoma tumor they also found another type of colon cancer that had metastasized in his liver.
Lancaster man gets Christmas without dialysis
LANCASTER - I.B. Harmon doesn't need anything else for Christmas. He's already received the gift of life. Harmon, 76, of Lancaster, had surgery for colon cancer June 23, and though the disease hadn't spread, there was hardly time to celebrate.
In colon cancer drug study, more wasn't better
Doctors thought that combining two newer drugs that more precisely attack cancer would help people with advanced colon cancer. Instead, it made the cancer worse and made the patients more miserable, a study found. The surprising findings underscore the importance of doing rigorous studies before rushing to mix these pricey, new-generation drugs, the Dutch... more...
HRT may protect against colon cancer
DENVER, April 23 (UPI) -- Hormone replacement therapy protected post-menopausal women against colon cancer, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said.
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