Sentences with phrase «colon cancer often»

Those diagnosed with colon cancer often have no symptoms.

In humans, colon cancer often spreads to the liver and forms small tumors that are difficult to detect, similar to ovarian tumors.

Once formed, many of these experimental tumors spread to the liver, just like human colon cancers often do.

Not exact matches

Religious teachings often DEFY logic and reason (e.g., God is all knowing, all seeing and all powerful and yet He allows someone's husband or wife to die a painful and horrific death from colon cancer)-- that's why the religious sometimes must turn to faith (e.g., God works in mysterious ways).

Thanks in part to screening technologies like colonoscopy; colon cancer is often detected in its earliest stages.

Obesity is a known risk factor for many cancers including colon cancer, yet the reasons behind the colon cancer link have often remained unclear.

This often reduces the chance of recovery significantly: the cure rate for prostate cancer is 32 percent and only 11 percent for colon cancer.

In patients whose colon cancer has spread (most often to the liver), current treatments extend life by, at most, less than two years.

While cautioning that the new radiation delivery system is still far from ready for use in people, Abraham notes that P32 gives off high energy that can penetrate through 5 millimeters of human tissue, making it a good candidate to tackle colon cancer since colon cancer cells can often form large, thick tumors into which drugs may not penetrate very well.

She even had her own colonoscopy broadcast live on the Today show to emphasize the often - heard litany that early diagnosis and timely surgery can cure colon cancer and greatly reduce its death rate.

These same changes generally occur before polyps — the mushroom - like lesions often snipped off during a colonoscopy — but can often be a precursor to colon cancer.

Dr. Liu's findings may help explain why studies have shown that populations eating diets high in fiber - rich whole grains consistently have lower risk for colon cancer, yet short - term clinical trials that have focused on fiber alone in lowering colon cancer risk, often to the point of giving subjects isolated fiber supplements, yield inconsistent results.