i have a friend whos mom just died from liver cancer. she refused treatment becasue she had already gone through colon cancer.

my dad has a colon cancer, and the docter gave him pills and a diet, but I’m still scared that it maight cause colon cancer, do you think colon infection can cause colon cancer, I don’t know, please help 10 points for the best good answer…………Please help………………..
Thanks to people who really help me………….I mean it Apreciate it alot, Thanks

I am a 28 year old male, and for the last year I have had ALL of the symptoms of colon cancer except for weight loss and anemia. Also, I am not sure that I have had rectal bleeding, and I am inclined to think that the red in my stool was undigested tomatoe skins. That said, I have had loose stools, that are narrower and softer than usual, and mucus in my stools, and occasional constipation. I told my doctor about this, and he said it is probably IBS, but he said if it doesn’t clear up maybe I should talk with a Gastroenterologist and get a colonoscopy. I plan to do so soon—after my final exams. I am just wondering, though, can my symptoms really be caused by something else besideds colon cancer , like IBS. I look on the web, and it seems that my symptoms really point to colon cancer.

The fact is that using every single metric, the US has the best health care on the planet.

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer:

* Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).

* Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.

* More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).

* Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent).

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html
See that link on the bottom of the article canadian? Most americans are smart enough to follow the link when they need to verify the info.
How dumb can you butt monkeys be? See the "additional details"? See the link under it? COULD you 2 clowns be any lamer?
And some people are so dumb they compare average life expectancy. You do realize that includes car accidents, murders, as well as premature deaths that occur naturally dont you? I mean you cant be that stupid can you? Ok so that includes 40 million illegals that may have never seen a doctor in their lives as well as the 12000 mostly teenagers that shoot themselves fighting for drug turf. I mean you do realize that dont you? Ok so add in the number 12000 18 – 25 year olds (mostly) and lets see, do you think that might skew the numbers? Are you people really all that stupid?
and endo, only a dumb butt monkey would disagree with such a well written article that went into such detail and cited with…. um…. nothing. GOod job.
nice question tada. "ranked 37th in the world" Despite your lack of citing WHO ranked it (a common mistake amongst those that want to use discredited numbers) I do realize it is the UN or the WHO that did it. Having worked for the WHO I know how they do their rankings. They compare the health care that the richest person gets to the care the poorest person gets. The closer they are to identical, the higher you rank. So if you wanted to hand out bandaids and peroxide for compound fractures, and did that for everyone, you would rank #1. See why people laugh at these organizations run by 3rd worlders? The fact is that anyone with a dime on the planet, when they get seriously ill, flees to the US for medical care.
ok mewto lets compare the SARS outbreak of a few years back. both the US and canada had about 1000 cases of SARS. IN canada 49 people died. In the US ONE 70+ year old died. Id say that makes US health care better for infectious diseases too!
Tada you want to hear horror stories? IF your insurance company turns you down you can sue the crap out of them. If you are turned down by obama care, you cant do a thing. ITs written right in the obama care law.

"Health Care" Program?

Saturday, August 01, 2009

10 Reasons Why American Healthcare Is Better Than You’ve Been Told

By Jonah Goldberg

From Hoover’s Scott Atlas (who’s also the head of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School:

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers. Breast cancer mortality is 52 percent higher in Germany than in the United States and 88 percent higher in the United Kingdom. Prostate cancer mortality is 604 percent higher in the United Kingdom and 457 percent higher in Norway. The mortality rate for colorectal cancer among British men and women is about 40 percent higher.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians. Breast cancer mortality in Canada is 9 percent higher than in the United States, prostate cancer is 184 percent higher, and colon cancer among men is about 10 percent higher.

3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries. Some 56 percent of Americans who could benefit from statin drugs, which reduce cholesterol and protect against heart disease, are taking them. By comparison, of those patients who could benefit from these drugs, only 36 percent of the Dutch, 29 percent of the Swiss, 26 percent of Germans, 23 percent of Britons, and 17 percent of Italians receive them.

4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians. Take the proportion of the appropriate-age population groups who have received recommended tests for breast, cervical, prostate, and colon cancer:

Nine out of ten middle-aged American women (89 percent) have had a mammogram, compared to fewer than three-fourths of Canadians (72 percent).

Nearly all American women (96 percent) have had a Pap smear, compared to fewer than 90 percent of Canadians.

More than half of American men (54 percent) have had a prostatespecific antigen (PSA) test, compared to fewer than one in six Canadians (16 percent).

Nearly one-third of Americans (30 percent) have had a colonoscopy, compared with fewer than one in twenty Canadians (5 percent).

5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians. Twice as many American seniors with below-median incomes self-report “excellent” health (11.7 percent) compared to Canadian seniors (5.8 percent). Conversely, white, young Canadian adults with below-median incomes are 20 percent more likely than lower-income Americans to describe their health as “fair or poor.”

6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.

7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed. More than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”

8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared with only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent).

9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain. An overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identify computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade—even as economists and policy makers unfamiliar with actual medical practice decry these techniques as wasteful. The United States has thirty-four CT scanners per million Americans, compared to twelve in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has almost twenty-seven MRI machines per million people compared to about six per million in Canada and Britain.

10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations. The top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical trials than all the hospitals in any other developed country. Since the mid- 1970s, the Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology has gone to U.S. residents more often than recipients from all other countries combined. In only five of the past thirty-four years did a scientist living in the United States not win or share in the prize. Most important recent medical innovations were developed in the United States.

Despite serious challenges, such a

I have worked in the GI feild for several years and i am aware of the basic symptoms of colon cancer. Recently (as in the past 2 or 3 days or so) my mom’s health has taken a 180 turn. Vomiting,nasua,black watery stools,weakness,etc…with no fever….the first thing that comes into my mind is signs of colon cancer…maybe its just me being paranoid but we have a bad history in our family of this and she also has had ibs in the past (which increases your risks) she has had a colonoscpoy in the past and everything was good….shes now due for one…i reffered her to one of my old drs i used to work for..but..i want to know if you or anyone u know personally with colon cancer had any symptoms prior to a colonscopy and detecting the cancer? and what made you think you may have colon ca?

I would like to give out donations as favors at my wedidng, and since my father died of colon cancer I would like to find a charity that supports this cause.

There are many breast cancer charities, but not many for other specialties. Please provide sourcing if you can so I can verify that information is correct!

My uncle’s family has a history of colon cancer. Three people from his family have died because of it. I know he has colon cancer and apparently it’s really bad. I don’t think I heard my dad correctly, but he said something about a stage 7 (I think) and that it had gotten much worse. How severe would that stage of colon cancer be and is it treatable?

i am diagnosed that i have stage 2 colon cancer but i also have heart attack, is it safe to go to the surgery?

I know i can ask that question to a Doctor but i’m a little too curious to know it. Because I’ve got a feeling that I might have colon cancer. pls, reply soon!

I am 21 yrs old and been working out, and occasionally have diarrhea and stomach pains, and could this be early colon cancer, or just my poor diet in foods, bc this few weeks i been drinking lots of pop and greasey foods, and how to stop this, and is it colon cancer?

I had one removed, and now I need to go back for yearly screenings. I’m just wondering had I not gone, how many more years it would have taken to turn into colon cancer.

Today when I went to the bathroom, my stool was greenish. It almost looked like it had green moss growing on it. Does anybody know if this is a sign of colon cancer? I’ve had other colon cancer symptoms as well lately and I have a doctors appointment scheduled for July 6th.

I’ve never heard of green stool being a symptom of colon cancer, but I am just curious.

ok here is the deal I’m 23 yeas old and in pretty good health overweight and I battle mental health disorders and Have OCD. I’m worried that I have something wrong with my colon and I mean I know I do I have bile salts diahreea no family history of colon cancer and a family history of Poplps but not untill later in life in the 50 and 60s. I keep thinking that I see red in my stool and it freaks me out. I mean only if I dont take my questran otherwise the stool is formed and everything. I have seen two medical doctors that say its just bile salt diahreea and a surgeron who says proforming a colonscopy is more dangous then not with not having any other smphotms. I just want to know what someone else thinks am I freaking out to much. I so feel that a 23 yeas old shouldnt have to worry about something like this and oh yeah I did have my gallbladder out thats how I got the bile salt diahreea. Someone please help me ease my mind

I am only 14 years old and today i was diagnosed with colon cancer symptoms and im not sure what to do! I am very upset about it and feel that my friends should know about my condition.
How can i tell them without scaring them?
And what shall i do to make my self feel better??

thankyou to anyone who can help me!

If I went to the hospital to get checked for colon cancer, what would they do to me to find out? How do they find out? And about how much do you think it will cost? And if I did have colon cancer, what treatment would they tell me to take?
I’m trying to keep this question more general, what would they usually do? What would they normally do or recommend to anyone?

Hi all. i’m a male 26 years old,, hispanic. I have been having pain and blood in my stool since i was 20.. but i would for example go to the bathroom, wipe, and see some red in the toilet paper. then, for along time i wouldn’t see anything, as if normal, then other days sudden colon pains, then othere days the whole toilete water turned red and i got scared…by the way the blood is bright red, not dark.

I want to go to the gastrointestinal doctor but currently i’m suffering from Knee pain , so i’m going to a orthopedic, who also told me i need to get Physical therapy for my knees…and i’ve got a bunch of other stuff so you can imagine…i’m going financially broke. But I guess it’s also about timet to go to the gastro doctor,,, .. From what i’ve explained, do you think i have colon cancer? Too late to do anything?

I’ve had rectal pain and / or bleeding for a couple of years now, off and on. It goes away for several days or weeks, but then comes back again. Yesterday I had alot of rectal bleeding, I didn’t go to the ER because it stopped after a few seconds and also, I’m just now getting health insurance, I’ve been approved already, but don’t have the card yet with all the necessary info. Today I had a little more rectal bleeding, not too much. It was after having a bm, I saw blood in the toilet and on the toilet paper. I’m having some rectal pain now. I’m wanting to make an appointment with a gastroenterologist that specializes in hemmoroids, colon cancer etc, but am wating to have the health insurance card in my hand as they require health insurance. In the meantime, could anyone who’s had similar symptoms or who knows someone’s has had these symptoms give me a clue as to what it could be? Another important thing to mention is that these symptoms started soon after I had my baby about 2 years ago and they’ve been off and on since then. Thanks in advance.

I’m 22 years old and I’m having some problems. I have streaks of blood in my stools and I;m having a hard time going to the bathroom. I keep getting constipated. I eat fiber rich oatmeal and fiber bars almost everyday and I still have issues. I’m constantly bloated and gassy. Could this be colon cancer?

I am very concerned about my sister. Here are her symptoms:
Constipation
mucus in stool
Dr. tested her stool and they found blood in it
She is very anemic
Stomach pain
she said her stool can also be skinny (narrow)
I know she is only 30, but my Grandpa had colon cancer and it worries me that she has had these symptoms for so long. Besides colon cancer, what else could it be?
Thank you.
If there is anyone else who has had colon cancer, please respond as well.
Thank you

http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/guide/treatment-stage
does the above article mean that no doctor will remove a colon tumor (only polyps) during a colonscopy?
here is the correct link…………..
http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/guide/treatment-stage

I guess this answers my question unless others interpret it a different way.
Stage 0
Stage 0 colon cancer is found only in the innermost lining of the colon. Treatment usually involves one of the following:
Polypectomy or local excision to remove the tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue, or
during my 1st test in 1995, pre-cancerous polyps were removed according to the doctor and I’ve been told that not all polyps are pre-cancerous. Not sure if they took a sample, ran it to the lab very quickly and then came back and removed them as being pre-cancerous. Now sure how they knew they were pre-cancerous. The doctor did not tell me about this for 5 years and I feel my patient rights to know were violated. I’m trying to figure out how to be told what is being removed this time so I can make the decision as to remove or not to remove.
My current question is:
If my doctor finds more than polyps, even a stage 00 tumor, can and will he remove it during the colonoscopy or does it require a second procedure?

i think i had colon cancer symptoms 3 years ago, symptoms like bleeding during a bowel movement, constipation, cramps, and diarrhea….i had the symptoms for a few months, so i went to the doctor and they checked my stool sample, and blood… and said that the tests came up negative…they told me to eat right and the symptoms disappeared within a couple of weeks….i was 17 years old at the time……i am 20 years old right now and i started having symptoms again….so the main question is, can colon cancer symptoms disappear and come back after a few years?

for the past 9 months my stools have had a very tarry texture, are the color of clay, have black specks in them, often times look like i have undigested peanuts in them (wheni have not eaten them)and sometimes are’thin and ribbony’. there was one incedent where i bled profusely after having a bowel movement, and a few times bled but in a lesser amount. i am often fatiqued and out of breath, but i’m not sure if that is just my diabetes. i’m a 30 yr old female. does this sound like colon cancer? i dont have health insurance so im not sure what i shoud do (or what’s going on)

What are some of the signs when you first get colon cancer and if you wait a couple years and find out you have colon cancer what are the different signs?

besides occult (invisible) blood, i have heard of colon cancer and polyps causing bleeding, besides the other symptoms like diahrea and constipation and very thin stools like pencils…..i have also had a family member who had a polyp and bled ALOT in the toilet….supposeldy this is also the case with cancer but i was just wondering if most cases with this type of cancer bleed in that fashion, besides the tarry black sludge like stools that are also common….i was just wondering