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_Rx Health Watch by Dr Robert C. Beitman

National media attention j has been focused on early detection of colon cancer for several weeks. As I am a specialist in this disease, its detection has become a daily occurence in my office. The tragedy is that death from colon cancer is largely preventable, but most people don't choose to undergo regular screening for it and ignore the dietary measures that can help avert it. Screening -takes several forms. A common test is called "stool for occult blood" or "hemoccult." This is a little card upon which you place a sample of bowel movement. A DROP OF a special chemical is applied to it in the lab and the color it changes to tells us where there is blood present in the bowel. Blood does not belong in the bowel. It is a sign of a problem. Maybe just hemorrhoids, or diverticula or maybe colon cancer or a polyp. Polyps are growths that look somewhat like mushrooms which scientists have proven can turn into cancers if lef^ in the colon to continue growing. Sometimes blood in the bowel movement shows that the bowel has pushed against on of the polyps, causing it to bleed and let 4 us know it's there. YOUR DOCTOR regularly checks your rectum with a finger to check for colon cancers growing within the first five inches. It is a common misunderstanding that the doctor is looking for hemorrhoids in this fashion. In.fact, hemorrhoids cannot he diagnosed by touch, only by direct visualization with the eye. Unfortunately, colon caqcprs have been moving farther back in the colon over the last decade and the finger rectal exam can provide only limited information. PEOPLE MORE «

1 sophisticated about their ' wellness will seek out regular examination with 1 the sigmoidscope. Unlike those instruments first 1 developed, today's modern sigmoidscope is a flexible tube with optical light 1 fibers running through it which allows the doctor to look into the rectum and 1 colon and part of the intestine. It is generally less pain1 ful than the rigid scopes and more accurate, since it allows an examination three times the length. ~~~\Most importantly, the scope allows the doctor to take biopsies of a suspicious area in the colon without having to open up the patient surgically. THERE IS also a longer version of the sigmoidscope, called a colonscope, which is made of the same thin, flexible plastic tubing only it reaches through the entire colon, allowing a thorough search for cancer. A tiny wire can be snaked through this longer scope and looped over any polyps, some mild electric current run through it and the polyp then is cut off and removed through the scope. This is a recent and dramatic medical advance. THESE SCOPES are so accurate that looking •through them is like being right inside the body with your own eyes. It is something like the movie "Fantastic Journey"). Even suspicious changes in the coloration of the colon can be detected and biopsied, allowing for the earliest possible detection. If a polyp or suspicious area is biopsied, it will be studied by the pathology lab to determine whether it is cancerous (malignant) or not (benign.) IF IT IS cancerous, and / the cancer extended to the root of the polyp, it may be advisable to have a section of colon removed . However, if the cancer was localized, just in the head of the polyp, then it was removed in full. In some, cases an- X-ray exam known as the "barium enema" may be used to search for colon cancer. This can be helpful. The barium shows up on the X-rays to light up a picture of the colon. Unfortunately, an X-ray is only a shadow on a film, so often small growths do not show up. -v THE AMERICAN Cancer Society recommends for patients without symptoms over the age of

45, a sigmoidoscopy to be conducted for two consecutive years so long as there are no findings, and then every three years. This creates a reasonable chance of finding something in time to do something about it. The stool for occult blood test, "hemoccult," and rectal exam should be .1 part of your normal annual physical. Those who have intestinal symptoms may require examination much earlier than 45 years of age or more often than every three years. Free detailed brochures on colon cancer, early detection and treatment are-available by calling the Cape May County Unit of the American Cancer Society, 886-1154. We also have speakers on the topic who will address your religious, civic or social organization at no charge. Health Watch is a public education project of the Cape May County Unit of the ' American Cancer Society, of which Dr. Beitman is president-elect. V Promotion VILLAS - Clint 'L. Thomson, Junction City, Ore., has been promoted in the U.S. Air Force to the rank of technical sergeant. Thomson is a quality assurance inspector at Hahn Air Base, West Germany, with the 50th Tactical Fighter Wing. His wife, Joanne, is the daughter of William E. and Agnes C. Callahan of 147 E. Kentucky Ave., here. HIVE WE GOT I HEW LOOK FOR 700! t The way you've always wonted your hair to look ... fantastic design, yet easy to core for RIO GRANDE AREA! HAIRPORT 211 SCHOOL LANE RIO GRANDE (all day aloc ursncxl qmtth or orahoi 886-8021 CALL KATHY OPEN TUES. THRU SAT.

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