Maryland is patching together expanded coverage for the low-income uninsured Medical bills and a lack of insurance have been a constant concern for Alanna Boulis and her husband, Adamantious, who has diabetes and colon cancer. The couple are now eligible for Medicaid under an expansion of the state's health insurance program for low-income residents that takes effect Tuesday.
Michael Pollard's doctor suggested he have an endoscopy to see if the pain he was having in his stomach was the result of ulcers. Pollard figured while he was doing the endoscopy, he might as well do a colonoscopy.
A pre-planned multivariate analysis of the five-year follow-up data shows that patients receiving chemotherapy after-surgery to treat colon cancer, are more likely to live longer when taking the chemotherapy pill Xeloda (capecitabine), compared to those receiving 5-FU/FA intravenous (IV) chemotherapy.
Writer gets a break in theatre just after he finds out he has colon cancer
Asians are less likely to undergo colon cancer screening than whites, but the reasons are not completely clear. For insights, researchers at University of California Davis School of Medicine analyzed data from two national surveys with a combined total of 22,973 adults age 50 and older.
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