This allowed for slightly higher doses, but it still caused significant rectal damage.
During the swims, the researchers measured the volunteers' oxygen consumption, rectal temperature, swim speed and angle, and stroke rate and length.
They understand the logistics of rectal thermometers: It doesn't work with gloves.
One top earning anesthesiologist for Cephalon had been kicked out of a hospital for conducting vaginal and rectal exams without a clear reason.
The American Cancer Society suggests men in their 50s take this test yearly (along with a digital rectal exam), but there are two potential flaws.
Hence the birth of companies such as Centocor, which makes drugs for heart disease and may soon have new ones for colo-rectal and prostate cancers.
The doctor eventually finds himself in a factory of rectal examinations.
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Although there doesn't appear to be a direct link between diverticular disease and colon or rectal cancer, diverticular disease may make cancer more difficult to diagnose.
In total, 2, 268 patients who had been referred by their GP to a specialist with symptoms such as rectal bleeding, and increased bowel movements were studied.
The nation's preeminent doctors furiously debate the relative efficacy of these alternatives, but the treatments all come with the potential for nasty side effects, ranging from incontinence to rectal bleeding.
The U.S.' preeminent doctors furiously debate the relative efficacy of these alternatives, but the treatments all come with the potential for nasty side effects, ranging from incontinence to rectal bleeding.
Besides, since it is uncommon for children without bowel disorders to undergo extensive rectal examinations, the true incidence of the changes in those who are not sick is hard to know.
Researchers at Memorial Sloan- Kettering reported in 2002 that a mere 4% of 698 prostate cancer patients who underwent IMRT suffered significant rectal bleeding, less than one-third the rate for older technology.
Shan Wang of Stanford has used a GMR chip smaller than a postage stamp to detect carcinoma-embryonic antigen (a sign of colon and rectal cancer) and human papilloma virus, the main cause of cervical cancer.
In a 2003 study, another Dartmouth team, led by the internist Elliott Fisher, examined the treatment received by a million elderly Americans diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer, a hip fracture, or a heart attack.
It's also possible that obesity-related cancers that are more common in men -- such as colon, rectal, and kidney cancers -- may simply take longer to manifest than weight-related cancers in women, according to an editorial by Dr. Andrew G.
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