OldDog/NewTricks
Well-known member
Not a pleasant topic but well worth considering
From: Norland, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:07 PM
To: Hegg, Richard; Everyone - CSREES Everyone Distribution List
Subject: RE: are you over 50 years old?
Friends,
It was Dick’s colon cancer that got me in for my first screening colonoscopy last year. Good thing I did. I had 3 more colonoscopies to remove a fairly large, and fortunately, benign but pre-cancerous, polyp.
Dick’s cancer was my saving grace.
I enthusiastically endorse and “second” what Dick has written below. If you’ve avoided the colonoscopy for whatever reason, the consequences could be dire. So… just do it!
Thanks and blessing to Dick,
-Eric
Eric R. Norland, Ph.D., CF
National Program Leader, Forest Resource Management
Mailing address:
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
1400 Independence Avenue, SW - Stop 2210
Washington, DC 20250-2210
Shipping and courier address:
Waterfront Centre - Room 3214
800 9th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Phone: 202-401-5971
FAX: 202-401-1706
E-mail: [email protected]
From: Hegg, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:57 AM
To: Everyone - CSREES Everyone Distribution List
Subject: are you over 50 years old?
It has been over 2 years since I was diagnosed as having colon cancer because of a colonoscopy. I had the recommended medical procedures to correct the situation.
I want to make sure my friends who are over 50 are getting regular colonoscopies so they make sure there is no problem. Make this one of your New Year’s resolutions.
The Bad News
Colorectal cancer, otherwise known as colon cancer, is the second-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths for men and women combined. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in men and in women.
Colorectal cancer affects people of all ethnic backgrounds.
Every year, nearly 150,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease, and nearly 60,000 die.
More than 13,000 colorectal cancer cases are diagnosed each year in people under the age of 50.
By the time symptoms occur (intestinal pain, blood in the stool), colorectal cancer has often metastasized to another organ.
The Good News
Get the test. Get the polyp. Get the cure. *
· Colorectal cancer is curable 90% of the time when detected early.
· Most of these deaths can be prevented by getting a colonoscopy at age 50, or earlier with a family history. A colonoscopy is a screening test which can be used to detect certain pre-cancerous growths, or polyps, in the colon and rectum and remove them before they ever develop into cancer.
· Everyone should be screened at age 50, even when there is no family history, since 70 to 75% of colon cancer cases fall into this category.
· The earlier colorectal cancer is detected, the more curable it is.
Colonoscopies are the gold standard for tests.
“Colonoscopy has the unique advantage among all the screening tests of usually being able to visualize the entire bowel. Colonoscopy is the gold standard for sensitivity in colorectal cancer screening, the standard by which the performance of other tests is measured,” states Robert A. Smith, M.D., Director of Cancer Screening, American Cancer Society.
**********************************************
Richard Hegg, National Program Leader
USDA-CSREES
phone 202-401-6550
fax 202-401-5179
[email protected]
U.S. Mail
Mail Stop 2220
USDA-CSREES
Washington, DC 20250-2220
Express Mail
USDA-CSREES
room 3430, Waterfront Centre
800 9th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
The mission of CSREES is, "To advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities."
From: Norland, Eric
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:07 PM
To: Hegg, Richard; Everyone - CSREES Everyone Distribution List
Subject: RE: are you over 50 years old?
Friends,
It was Dick’s colon cancer that got me in for my first screening colonoscopy last year. Good thing I did. I had 3 more colonoscopies to remove a fairly large, and fortunately, benign but pre-cancerous, polyp.
Dick’s cancer was my saving grace.
I enthusiastically endorse and “second” what Dick has written below. If you’ve avoided the colonoscopy for whatever reason, the consequences could be dire. So… just do it!
Thanks and blessing to Dick,
-Eric
Eric R. Norland, Ph.D., CF
National Program Leader, Forest Resource Management
Mailing address:
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
1400 Independence Avenue, SW - Stop 2210
Washington, DC 20250-2210
Shipping and courier address:
Waterfront Centre - Room 3214
800 9th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
Phone: 202-401-5971
FAX: 202-401-1706
E-mail: [email protected]
From: Hegg, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:57 AM
To: Everyone - CSREES Everyone Distribution List
Subject: are you over 50 years old?
It has been over 2 years since I was diagnosed as having colon cancer because of a colonoscopy. I had the recommended medical procedures to correct the situation.
I want to make sure my friends who are over 50 are getting regular colonoscopies so they make sure there is no problem. Make this one of your New Year’s resolutions.
The Bad News
Colorectal cancer, otherwise known as colon cancer, is the second-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths for men and women combined. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in men and in women.
Colorectal cancer affects people of all ethnic backgrounds.
Every year, nearly 150,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease, and nearly 60,000 die.
More than 13,000 colorectal cancer cases are diagnosed each year in people under the age of 50.
By the time symptoms occur (intestinal pain, blood in the stool), colorectal cancer has often metastasized to another organ.
The Good News
Get the test. Get the polyp. Get the cure. *
· Colorectal cancer is curable 90% of the time when detected early.
· Most of these deaths can be prevented by getting a colonoscopy at age 50, or earlier with a family history. A colonoscopy is a screening test which can be used to detect certain pre-cancerous growths, or polyps, in the colon and rectum and remove them before they ever develop into cancer.
· Everyone should be screened at age 50, even when there is no family history, since 70 to 75% of colon cancer cases fall into this category.
· The earlier colorectal cancer is detected, the more curable it is.
Colonoscopies are the gold standard for tests.
“Colonoscopy has the unique advantage among all the screening tests of usually being able to visualize the entire bowel. Colonoscopy is the gold standard for sensitivity in colorectal cancer screening, the standard by which the performance of other tests is measured,” states Robert A. Smith, M.D., Director of Cancer Screening, American Cancer Society.
**********************************************
Richard Hegg, National Program Leader
USDA-CSREES
phone 202-401-6550
fax 202-401-5179
[email protected]
U.S. Mail
Mail Stop 2220
USDA-CSREES
Washington, DC 20250-2220
Express Mail
USDA-CSREES
room 3430, Waterfront Centre
800 9th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
The mission of CSREES is, "To advance knowledge for agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities."