| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health - 1994 - 634 pages
...digestive diseases would like to comment specifically. Prevention Benefits and Colorectal Cancer Screening Colorectal Cancer is the second leading cause of cancer...death in the United States with 155,000 new cases each year. The death rate from a diagnosis of colorectal cancer approaches 60%. Colorectal cancer accounts... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce - 1994 - 960 pages
...digestive diseases would like to comment specifically. Prevention Benefits and Colorectal Cancer Screening Colorectal Cancer is the second leading cause of cancer...death in the United States with 155,000 new cases each year. The death rate from a diagnosis of Colorectal cancer approaches 60%. Colorectal cancer accounts... | |
| James E. Everhart - 1995 - 810 pages
...different detection tests and strategies in screening and secondary prevention. DISEASE DEFINITION Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. There are approximately 150,000 new cases per year and 60,000 deaths.1 Colorectal cancer is commonly... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health - 1997 - 686 pages
...regarding Medicare reform, specifically. Medicare coverage of colorectal cancer screening. The DDNC is comprised of 23 national voluntary and professional...155,000 new cases reported each year. The death rate froa a diagnosis of colorectal cancer approaches 60%. Colorectal cancer accounts for over half (1/2)... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 2000 - 96 pages
...cancer and minimize its effect on beneficiaries' health status through early detection and treatment Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Currently, only about a third of all colorectal cancers are diagnosed at an early stage. Widespread... | |
| Bridget Doherty, Julia VanTine - 2001 - 424 pages
...rectum (colorectal cancer) will kill some 56,600 people this year — almost half of them women. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. And it is highly preventable. "This is a cancer that no one needs to have," asserts Ernestine Hambrick,... | |
| Linda Wheeler - 2002 - 470 pages
...(earlier, if childbearing is completed). Then a prophylactic, bilateral oophorectomy is recommended. Colon Cancer Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Fortunately, it has a slow-growing precursor lesion, the adenoma (precancerous polyps). Removal of... | |
| Alberto Pilotto, Peter Malfertheiner, Peter R. Holt - 2003 - 227 pages
...choice of treatment modality should be individualized to each patient. Liangpunsakul/Rex 208 Summary Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Age is a powerful risk factor for the development of colorectal cancer. The prevalence of adenomas... | |
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