Colon Cancer Treatment and Symptoms entities Cholangiocarcinoma
Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. It is the third most common form of cancer and the second leading cause of death among cancers in the Western world. Many colorectal cancers are thought to arise from adenomatous polyps in the colon. These mushroom-like growths are usually benign, but some may develop into cancer over time. The majority of the time, the diagnosis of localized colon cancer is through col ...
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Colon Cancer Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- College of American Pathologists http://www.cap.org/
- American Institute for Cancer Research http://www.aicr.org/
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clearinghouse, AHRQ, OPHS, HHS http://www.ahcpr.gov/news/pubsix.htm
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
- National Library of Medicine, NIH, HHS http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, NIDDK, NIH, HHS http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/index.htm
- Cancer Care, Inc. http://www.cancercare.org/
- National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS http://cms.hhs.gov/
- Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, NCCDPHP, CDC http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/
- Society of American Gastrointestinal Endosopic Surgeons http://www.sages.org/sages.html
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network http://www.nccn.org/
- University of California, Los Angeles http://www.ucla.edu/
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum http://www.apiahf.org/
- Patient Education Institute
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, Inc. http://www.ccfa.org/
- Lab Tests Online http://www.labtestsonline.org/
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Google Health https://www.google.com/health
Resources
- Activation of beta-catenin-Tcf signaling in colon cancer by mutations in beta-catenin or APC (Google Health)
- Asian Pacific Islander National Cancer Survivors Network (Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum)