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Cooper Digestive Health Institute

Colonoscopies Save Lives

September 22, 2017 Leave a Comment

Colorectal cancer almost always develops from abnormal growths (polyps) in the colon or rectum. A colonoscopy can find polyps, so they can be removed before they turn into cancer. Colonoscopy also can find colorectal cancer early, when treatment works best.

MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper and the American Cancer Society recommend that average-risk men and women begin colorectal cancer screenings at age 50. Read more.

Posted in: Events Tagged: Cancer, cancer screening, Colon Cancer Awareness, Colorectal cancer, Cooper Digestive Health Institute, “80% by 2018”

Free Colon Cancer Prevention and Detection Webinar

March 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
The team at the Cooper Digestive Health Institute and their colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper are using Colon Cancer Awareness Month as a springboard to promote colon health. Christopher W. Deitch, MD, gastroenterologist, will be interviewed during a live online program in collaboration with NBC10 studio on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at 12:30 p.m.
Posted in: Newsmakers Tagged: Colon Cancer Awareness, Cooper Digestive Health Institute, MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper

New SpyGlass™ System Helping to Rule Out Pancreatic Cancer

April 23, 2009 Leave a Comment
When a sharp pain in his abdomen landed Craig Blackman in a local emergency department, he asked for answers. Test after test, doctors could not determine the root cause of his pain. Suggestions of stones in his bile duct, a tumor in the pancreas and pancreatitis, were all investigated. Finally, he underwent an ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, a typical diagnostic test for location of stones, but none were detected. Mr. Blackman, of Medford saw Dr. Adam Elfant, Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy at the Cooper Digestive Health Institute for a procedure called SpyGlass™. Cooper is the only center in the region utilizing a new state-of-the-art direct visualization system known as SpyGlass ™. SpyGlass™ uses a precise fiber-optic camera, not much bigger than a pencil point, that is inserted through a catheter (or tube) into the upper digestive tract. Threaded through the stomach and into the bile ducts, the physician can “steer” the camera in four directions allowing them to pinpoint the exact spot they want to examine.
Posted in: Press Releases Tagged: Cooper Digestive Health Institute, pancreatic cancer, SpyGlass™, therapeutic endoscopy

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