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.
FDA Approval of Over-the-Counter Orlistat Is Reckless
At a time when colon cancer is a leading cause of death and disease in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to approve, for over-the-counter (OTC) use, a drug that clearly causes pre-cancerous lesions of the colon (aberrant crypt foci or ACF*) is the height of recklessness and shows a profound lack of concern for the public’s health.
Q: A friend recently had a colonoscopy. His doctor found, and zapped, 12 polyps in his colon - all of them small and, as it turned out, benign. An earlier procedure six years ago found none.
Colon cancer may be treatable with hormone therapy
Colon cancer - a disease triggered by deactivated hormones - might eventually be treated with hormone therapy, scientists say.
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