Elementary school principal shares first-person story of colorectal cancer (The Marshfield Mail)

March is designated as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, but, probably because of the part of the body involved, it is a disease that often doesn’t get a lot of publicity.

'Super colon' to visit Auburn (The Lewiston Sun Journal)

AUBURN — Check your insides out. That's the pitch behind next month's display of a 20-foot-long, 8-foot-tall replica of a human colon, dubbed the "Super Colon.”

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Sierra Sun)

March was designated National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 10 years ago. Since then, public awareness of screening for colorectal cancer has grown and mortality has decreased. Colorectal cancer is cancer of the colon or rectum and is equally common in men and women. It is one of the few cancers we can prevent successfully with colonoscopy screenings, by removing polyps before they become ...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients Not More Likely To Get Colon Cancer (Medical News Today)

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than healthy people undergoing colonoscopies, according to new research published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. "Patients and doctors get nervous about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)," says William D. Chey, M.D., professor of Internal Medicine ...

IBS patients are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer than healthy people undergoing colonoscopies (News-Medical-Net)

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than healthy people undergoing colonoscopies, according to new research published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Irritable bowel syndrome patients not at increased colon cancer risk (Sify News)

Irritable bowel syndrome patients are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than fit individuals undergoing colonoscopies, according to a new research.

Irritable bowel syndrome patients not at increased colon cancer risk (New Kerala)

Washington, Mar 10 : Irritable bowel syndrome patients are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than fit individuals undergoing colonoscopies, according to a new research.

Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome Not More Likely to Develop Polyps or Colon Cancer, U-M Study Says (redOrbit)

Unless other warning signs are present, colonoscopies aren't necessary for typical cases of irritable bowel syndrome, U-M physician says ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patients with irritable bowel syndrome are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than healthy people undergoing colonoscopies, according to new research published in ...

Patients with irritable bowel syndrome not more likely to develop polyps, colon cancer (EurekAlert!)

( University of Michigan Health System ) Patients with irritable bowel syndrome are at no greater risk of having polyps, colon cancer or inflammatory bowel diseases than healthy people undergoing colonoscopies.

National Event Addresses Breakthroughs in Crohn’s & Colitis Research: National Expert & Researcher Answers Key ... (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Research in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is changing and improving the way Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis—chronic and often debilitating digestive diseases impacting 1.4 million Americans—are diagnosed and treated.