Colon Cancer Screening and Prevention: Health Screening and Prevention

By Dr. Salim Jaffer

Colon Cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States. But despite this disease's deadly reputation, screening for colon cancer can be highly effective at detecting it early and preventing unnecessary deaths and other complications. 

This book is designed to help you understand how and when to schedule screening exams for colon cancer, what to expect from the process, and what the results might mean. It provides information on colon cancer symptoms and risk factors, as well as recommendations for the age at which you should schedule specific procedures.

Colon cancer is highly survivable if caught early - and extremely deadly if caught late. So it's vital you know how and when to talk to your doctor about screening, because by the time your body starts to display symptoms, it might already be too late.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr. Salim Jaffer
• Release date: Jan 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386128984

Dr. Salim Jaffer

Salim A. Jaffer, MD, MS, completed his clinical fellowship in gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospitals. He earned the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a concentration in molecular biology and history of medicine. He completed the Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toledo in Ohio. He trained in Internal Medicine at KCMS and William Beaumont Hospital.  Dr. Jaffer conducted cell culture studies in neurochemistry and molecular cloning as a research scholar at the University of Michigan's Medical Center after completing his Master of Science degree in cell biology. He has published papers in basic sciences as well as clinical medicine. He currently practices clinical gastroenterology in Lansing, Michigan. Dr. Jaffer continues to engage in academic research and publications.

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Adult Guide

Colon Cancer Screening

and Prevention

Salim A. Jaffer, MD, MS

Kampala Publishing House

Lansing, Michigan

Adult Guide: Health Screening and Prevention

Copyright © 2015 by Salim A. Jaffer, MD, MS

First edition and publication 2015

This book is registered and certified with the Copyright Office of the

United States of America.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014915191

All rights reserved. No parts of this book can be reproduced, copied, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, recording, mechanical, or otherwise without prior written and hand ink signed permission of the publisher.

Diagrams, tables, and pictures are the copyright property of the author.

They may be copied only with ink-pen, hand signed permission

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Prostate, testicular and skin cancer pictures are modified copyright of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health.

The summary of screening and prevention table in chapter 31 was designed and constructed by the author and owns copyright to it.

The Chapter 31 table phone app is licensed to the author.

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