Obituaries for Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2006
Oct. 28, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Cancer Care Center, St. Paul, after a two year battle with colon cancer.
October 31, 2006
Virtual Colonoscopy Considerably More Expensive
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers have found that "virtual" colonoscopy using a computer tomography (CT) scanner is considerably more expensive than the traditional procedure due to the detection of suspicious images outside of the colon."Virtual colonoscopy will certainly play a role in the future of colon cancer screening," said gastroenterologist Richard S. [click link
October 30, 2006
Thyroid Cancer Cases Are Growing In U.S.
Breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer are often in the news. But the cancer that's growing fastest in the United States is something you might give little thought to: your thyroid.
Aspirin to block colon cancer?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- An aspirin a day could keep colon cancer away -- at least it might if you're one of the lucky individuals to have a specific genetic variation.
Merrimac woman hopes her battle with colon cancer will help save others
This is not how Donna Atwood-Alden pictured her life. But the picture changed last December when, after delaying for three years, she went for a colonoscopy.
