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    Issue Brief Colorectal Cancer Prevention State of Illinois, Health Department Colorectal Cancer Coalition Winter 2016 ______________________________________________________________________ Overview Colorectal cancer is cancer that originates in either the colon (large intestine) or the rectum (anus). In determining the value of preventing colorectal cancer (CRC) it is important to remember that CRC is the “second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States and the third…

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    Emily Mahana Sister Christensen NUTR 7 October 2015 The Effects of Dietary Change on IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome is not a disease, but is a health condition/disorder that consists of a group of atypical symptoms. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, causes pain around the stomach area of an individual, as well as contributes to abnormal excretion. Although this condition has been known by other names, professionals found that this name describes the condition best, because it is both a mental and…

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    onquer Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Heal From the Inside Out If you've ever been caught in the painful grips of gastrointestinal pain, there is hope, and it may be as easy as changing your diet. Irritable bowel syndrome can be mildly uncomfortable or completely debilitating. It affects nearly 20% of the U. S. population, and this health concern is right up there among the top causes of missed work. The good news is that there is a solution. Avoid Certain Foods Problems in the GI tract can begin…

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    There are hundreds of diseases in the world that many people do not know about. Cretinism is a disease that many people have not heard of, including myself, before I started to research it. Granted the disease is not very common and mainly occurs in newborns, it is important that everyone knows what it is and how it occurs. Cretinism is a disease of the thyroid gland also more commonly known as congenital hypothyroidism. The thyroid gland is an endocrine gland located in the anterior part of the…

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    Short Term Steroid Therapy

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    combination drugs is GI mucosal cell damage, which results in open, painful sores anywhere along the alimentary tract. Oral sores in the mouth or pharynx, along the esophagus can also happen in the rectal area. These lesions greatly compound anorexia because eating is very uncomfortable. Some medicines used to treat childhood cancer can have the neurotoxic effects of the extreme inability to have a bowel movement and jaw pain. Administration of opioid pain-relieving drugs can increase the…

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    Bowel cancer is the general term for any cancer that is located in the digestives lower tract and large bowel area. It varies being called 'colon cancer', 'rectal cancer' or 'colorectal cancer' depending on where the cancer generated from. The national bowel cancer screening strategy has six objectives but the main target being to eliminate the incidence, illness and mortality of bowel cancer by detecting the disease while it’s in its early stages. Although Bowel cancer is one of Australia’s…

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    Legalize Medical Marijuana

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    Medical marijuana is a big debate in the United States on whether it should be legalized for medical purposes. There are certain states that have already passed the law and made it possible for people who have a chronic disease to get their medication, if the patient is in a state that does not have medical marijuana then the patient does not have the right to consume the drug and they could actually face legal charges. When consuming medical marijuana it is different than when people consume…

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    How To Make Crohn

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    When you're having a Crohn's flare, you'll be dealing with symptoms that include abdominal pain and cramping, diarrhea that can be both sudden and explosive, gas, bloating, nausea, and more. If you have a career and can't just stay home, or if there is an event that you simply must attend, and can't get out of or postpone, or an important meeting, you may want to keep the fact that you have Crohn's disease to yourself, and hide the symptoms that you're having as best you can. It is probably…

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    T Cruzi Research Paper

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    The T. cruzi infection is 15-24µm. It is long thin and worm like. It has an undulating membrane. It is a virus and they are called trypanosomes. It is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma which is transmitted to animals and people through feces. People give it to other people when they share body fluids. It can infect anyone, but most people diagnosed are children. It is mostly found in the cardiovascular system, and in the places of poverty in Latin America. The symptoms change over time.…

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    Pleural Mesothelioma

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    Mesothelioma is just not an ailment in this few years however features it's root base because back because the start of nineteenth millennium. Nevertheless it came into highlight television. Mesothelioma results in tumours in and around vital bodily organs from the system. The term mesothelioma basically implies cancer malignancy from the mesothelium (oma is usually a healthcare expression regarding cancer). The mesothelium could be the sac of which defends vital bodily organs of our system and…

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