Word: adenomas
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...Celebrex could prevent the recurrence of colon cancer. It was halted before any conclusion could be reached. The situation was even more frustrating for patients in a second trial. There, scientists did indeed find a lower recurrence of colon tumors in patients taking Vioxx. "There was a reduction in adenoma recurrence," notes the study's lead author, Dr. Robert Bresalier of MD Anderson Cancer Center. "How that balances with the potential risk remains to be seen...
...that these next 3½ years? A. I'm going to do exactly what they've told me to do. The doctor himself was a little concerned because he'd used the term that I "have cancer." He says the proper thing is I "had cancer." That particular polyp, called adenoma type, is one that, if it is left, begins to develop cancerous cells. Well, this one had. But it's gone, along with the surrounding tissue. It had not spread. So I am someone who does not have cancer. But, like everyone else, I'm apparently vulnerable...
...three types of tumor growing in the epithelium, that is, the cellular tissue which covers the body's free-surfaces, and lines tubes and cavities. One of these three types grows in finger-like processes or ridges. It is called papilloma and is benign. Also benign is adenoma, which lines gland-like depressions or cavities in the tissue structure. Under certain conditions papilloma and adenoma may infiltrate into healthy tissues and sometimes displace them. Here they resemble in effect the third epithelial tumor type-carcinoma, or cancer...
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