... First and foremost, you need a Colon Rectal Surgeon...very very important ... Yes, it's very important to have the surgery done by a Board Certified colorectal surgeon. You should be able to find one who is affiliated with a major cancer center in Florida. http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.co...

NHMike wrote:.. I was doing a list of top cancer centers and looked up how MD Anderson is doing and saw their alert status page...

https://emergencyalert.mdanderson.org
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...Maybe as an intro you'd want to delineate the scope of that survey ... and a few possible "topics of discussion" or "frames of reference" implicit in others being able to ascertain where this conversation should lead .... ??? I agree with CRguy. I think it would help to know ...

Hi there, I recently completed a survey investigating the post treatment challenges for CRC survivors. I was not alone in noting that the survey "didn't ask the right questions". As a rectal cancer survivor I have my own ideas about what the "right" questions might be, but I wou...

... I work downtown and am already anticipating lovely moments sitting in bumper to bumper traffic ... Kegels. Think Kegels . If you're pre-reversal right now and stuck in traffic you can use this time to advantage by doing a few more Kegel exercises. It won't hurt and it might even help in the lon...

... My dear friend, Belle, wrote about her experience in making the decision to opt for a permanent colostomy on this forum. You can find her narrative archived in this blog section of this forum ... http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=57535&p=453641#p453641

Day 21. -- decided to start a true log to see how often I am going "clustering" etc. ... I like your new format with the "-p" annotation. Maybe you could expand the notation with subscripts to show which type of poo it was? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Bri...

Basil - I have a rather different interpretation about your situation there, but before I go into a long discourse about this I would like to ask whether you are, in fact, a registered patient in the PROSPECT trial and,if so, did they ask you to sign an Informed Consent document for that particular...

TXLiz wrote:Darkness, try not to worry. CEA can rise for so many reasons...

Here are some of the reasons for elevated CEA:

http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=53135&p=419830#p419830

...Moist flushable wipes are another option... Yes, but some so-called flushable wipes are not in fact flushable and can cause a toilet or sewer blockage that can be expensive to repair. http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56683&p=448558#p448558 https://www.theguardi...

Choosing Alternative Cancer Therapy Doubles the Risk of Death http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/17/health/alternative-vs-conventional-cancer-treatment-study/index.html https://news.yale.edu/2017/08/10/using-only-alternative-medicine-cancer-linked-lower-survival-rate https://academic.oup.com/jnci/artic...

... I don't know how to link back to the initial thread, .... Here is how to link back to your original thread with Maia's helpful response: http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=58382&p=459645#p459645 Here is some info on Merck's Patient Assistance Program: https://ww...

Utwo wrote:Do they give a special badge for each colonoscopy?

No, but they usually give a special colon tattoo for each polyp removed. This is so that the next colonoscopy will show where the previous polyps were located.