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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (8279)	10/1/2000 10:37:06 PM
From: Vector1	Read Replies (4) of 9719

TexasDude, I will look into INKP. The Fleet liquid that I had to drink when I had my colonoscopy was vile, but when compared having colon cancer, the benefits of early detection make it hardly a sacrifice. Anything that makes it more likely that people will have a colonoscopy is terrific and a major advance. Colon Cancer strikes a personal chord. My Dad died from the disease about 7 years ago after a three year battle. He was 73. I had my first colonoscopy 7 years ago when I was 35. I have had two more since. During the last procedure a noncancerous polyp was removed. I URGE EVERYONE OVER 40 TO HAVE A COLONOSCOPY EVERY 5 YEARS AT A MINIMUM. DO NOT DELAY. DO IT NOW. In the vast majority of cases benign polyps slowly transform into cancerous tumors, invade the colon wall and eventually reach the lymph nodes where they spread to other parts of the body. The typical kill mechanism is a spread to the liver. Usually the polyps grow very slowly (over years) into cancerous tumors and when caught early the disease is virtually 100% curable. Caught after invasion of the tumor wall and spread into the lymph nodes the 5 year prognosis is not good, nor is the quality of life. If you delay a colonoscopy here is what you have to look forward to. First there is major surgery to resect the colon and remove the area where the cancer occurred. The abdominal wall is cut open and in many cases more than a foot of colon is removed. If the tumor is too low in the intestine you have a good chance of loosing bowel control. Recovery from major surgery is slow and adhesions are a major problem which are extremely painful and may require additional surgery. If all goes well congratulations, you can start 6 months of chemo which will make you sick and look worse. I think we all know the symptoms. If you are lucky the cancer will not reappear for a couple of years. However, when it comes back it is the resistant cells that are back in force and they like to go after the liver. New chemo regiments are attempted and you may even get a pump surgically installed to increase the dose directly to the liver. The benefits of this, if any, are short term and the tumors begin to eat away at your liver destroying the bodies ability to cleanse the blood. You become jaundiced and weak, and it only gets worse from there as the only relief is morphine with its own brand of insidious side effects. The procedure itself is not too bad. Save your life. Do it now. V1

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