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colonoscopy). In colonoscopy an image of the entire large bowel, or colon, is relayed through the instrument... that is eaten to progress through the small intestine into the colon. It then may take longer periods...
have no further problems after their original treatment for cancer of the large bowel, but unfortunately in some people... of the large bowel. Sometimes, when the cancer is first diagnosed, it may already have spread beyond the bowel...
. As with a colostomy, stools are then collected in a bag worn over the stoma.
For people with cancer of the large... may be used to remove cancer cells when large bowel cancer has spread to another part of the body, such as the liver or...
The colon, or large intestine, is part of the digestive system, which is a series of organs..., which is also known as the small intestine. The major functions of the colon are to absorb water and salts...
and the large bowel. The large bowel is made up of the colon and rectum.
Once food... into the large bowel, and water is absorbed by the colon. The colon starts at the bottom, right-hand side...
treatments is given a week before the surgery. If the tumour is large, a longer course of radiotherapy... to the radiotherapy department, you will be asked to lie under a large machine called a simulator, which takes x-rays...
by surgery.
Generally, cancer of the large bowel is divided into four stages:
small and localised (stage...).
Doctors often use a staging system created by a pathologist called Dukes to describe large bowel cancer...
The information in the cancer of the large bowel information centre is based on the Cancerbackup booklet, Understanding cancer of the large bowel, which was produced in accordance...
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