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...disease, which afflicts half a million Americans, has symptoms ranging from cramps to rectal bleeding and even potentially lethal swelling of the colon...
...their multimillion-dollar PTL (Praise the Lord) empire crumbled, finally divorcing him in 1992. She promoted her faith, made fun of herself on Roseanne and other sitcoms and supported gay rights. ("We're all just people made of the same old dirt," she said.) After learning she had colon cancer in 1996, the 4-ft. 11-in. (1.5 m) evangelist, who married Roe Messner in 1993, tried to demystify cancer by speaking about it on TV and film and writing the 2003 memoir I Will Survive ... And You Will Too! Messner...
...target we are hitting is something that most cancer cells use to eat away normal tissue to make space for the cancer to grow," he says. So far the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers: gliomas and medulloblastomas in the brain, sarcomas in muscles, and prostate and colon cancers. They expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...
...gastric and pancreatic cancers. As for the believed cancer-fighting effects of lycopene, the key anti-cancer fighting ingredient in tomatoes, the FDA was even more discouraging, saying there was "no credible evidence" to suggest that the chemical could reduce the risk of such cancers of the prostate, lung, colon, breast, ovaries or pancreas...
...cervical cancer. When I was 48, I was diagnosed with viral pericarditis [an inflammation of the heart tissue]. One day I was in the gym, the next day in intensive care. When I was 50, my doctor suggested that I get a colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer. So I went, and when I woke up I found out that a big part of my colon and I were soon to be parted. I was just floored. I had no symptoms, and no reason to believe anything was wrong with me. How could this happen again...