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"The barber had gone through a similar situation and instead of getting the resection ... to take the polyp out and leave the colon intact.The surgery was a success, and Lumkin made a good ...

The surgery was otherwise successful ... was diagnosed at age 50 with metastatic colon cancer and died a few years later. She said she can think of of nearly a dozen more nurses off the top ...

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“The scans revealed that I had stage 2 cancer, but luckily it hadn’t spread. I elected to have bowel resection surgery later that summer, but stayed positive given it had been caught early. “I spent ...

The former carer had gastric sleeve surgery in October 2020 to ... A few months later she had a resection to remove most of her bowel, however, was forced to have an emergency stoma bag fitted ...

I elected to have bowel resection surgery later that summer, but stayed positive given it had been caught early. I spent the time preparing for surgery by exercising more, so that I was in the ...