Unfortunately, the interview with our fellow member has not yet made it into the paper, at the time of this story. However, for those of you who don't take the paper, I thought certain excerpts from the article deserved a place in the newsletter this month. Following are some excerpts from that story. And finding the courage to visit the doctor's office for colon cancer screening. The current exams involve inserting a narrow flexible tube, containing optical fibers, into the rectum and advancing it up into the colon.
Many people avoid having the exams because of the invasiveness and discomfort.
A computer program turns the CT data into a three-dimensional screen image of the patient's colon. The magazine said the noninvasive test could be available for widespread screening within a year. Dr. Alvin Korba, noted Radiation Oncologist with the Evansville Cancer Center, will be presenting the program on Colorectal cancer screening. The meeting has been publicized in a recent article in The Courier and Press, and the public is invited to attend. Please show your support for our chapter and this noted speaker by making your plans to attend this first meeting of 1999.