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Add Colon Cancer Screening To Your DIY List
(NAPS)--As summer winds
down and we head back into the
hustle and bustle of fall, it's a great
time to take stock of things you
• may have put off earlier in the
year. But as you check a few "Do It
Yourself' home projects off your
list, make sure you don't forget
about yourmost important invest-
ment: your health• Make this the
time you get up to date with your
health screenings...and if you've
been avoiding colon cancer screen-
ing, you can now add that to your
at-home DIY list, too.
Consider this: Colon cancer
claims nearly 50,000 lives a year,
but with proper screening, you
don't have to become one of these
statistics, and the process can be a
the lab for testing in the prepaid
mailer. You get the results from
your physician in as few as two
weeks after returning the sample.
If the result is positive, the clini-
cian will refer you for a diagnostic
colonoscopy. If the test is negative,
Tues. Nov. 29, 2016 Hinton News - 7
• val and with a method appropri-
Saving yourself from colon can- + ate for you based on a discussion
car is more vital and a lot less dif- with your physician.
ficult than many people realize.
many. In fact, a study published in
the Archives of Internal Medicine
fdund that compliance with
colonoscopy is a mere 38 percent?
"There is a clear need for new,
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Bone marrow, which is found in the
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AL.ANON
Axe you troubled by someone's
drinking? A1-Anon Family Group
can help. To help them, you have to
help yourself first.
Meetings every Monday nights
7:00 p.m. behind the ChildAdvocacy
Center at 411 Temple Street. For
more information call: 466-2760.
The USDA Rural Housing Service has
received an application for
assistance from the Summers County
Commission. The proposed project consists
of the purchase of two Sheriff's vehicles
for Summers County. This notice is also
to inform the public of a public meeting
to be held on Wednesday, December 1 4,
2016 at lh00 a,m. at the Summers
County Courthouse. The purpose of this
meetnng is to provide an opportunity to
become acquainted with the proposed
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A. True are distributed, never considers
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5.It won't cost my family status in allocating organs. Prior-
anything if I become a donor, ity is given to recipients based on
A. True medical criteria including the
B. False severity of illness, blood and tissue
type, body size, and the distance
Answers the recipient is from the donor.
1. B. No. Because people are liv- 5. A. True. The donor's family
ing longer, healthier lives, they are pays for medical care and funeral
able to be donors much later in costs, but not for organ or tissue
life. In fact, the oldest U.S. donor donation. Costs related to donation
was 92. are paid by the recipient or his or
2.A. Yes. Even with a healthherinsurance•
condition, you may be able to How did you do? If you'd like to
donate your organs or tissues, learn more or join the millions who
When the time comes, doctors will have registered as organ, eye, and tis-
evaluate the condition of your sue donors, go to www.organdonor.gov
organs and decide about donation, or www.donaciondeorganos.gov.
accurate, less-invasive options that nately, when it comes to deadly U.S. had gotten hemp cultivation the most terrifying result of all: oil concern for terrorism in WV. But in
lot simpler and more private than will motivate people who arecolon cancer, getting patients banned virtually worldwide. : :and gas wastes have been excluded 2015,afterhorizontalhydrofracking
you may realize, unable or unwilling to get screened is an up~l battle. This is a clearfrom hazardous classification by became fully operational, the DEP
Reason to Screen screened," said Michael Sapienza, Luckily, at-home options likedemonstration of total corporam the EPA and the WV Dept. of decided to hide toxic waste.
Screening is critical because CEO of the Colon Cancer Alliance. Col•guard take away many of the control via the media. However,: it Environmental Protection (DEP). For decades, corporations have
most colon cancers develop slowly "The opportunity is clear: The excuses I often hear from patients didn't step there. With corporate* How scary is this? Fracking been using gifts, fear, divisiveness
over several years. In fact, before more people screened, the fewer who avoid other colon cancer sponsored unlimited campaign~for oil or gas produces an and ridicule to manipulate us for
cancer develops, a polyp--or non- cases of colon cancer we will see. screening options." + : financing rules, politicians average of 5 million gallons of undesirable purposes. Isn't it time
cancerous growth--usually appears A Potential Solution "I admit it, I haven't always
on the inner lining of the colon or Now, there's an FDA-approved, been proactive when it "6~mes to are electedthat make la@a radioactive, poisoned brine per we wised up?
rectum. These pob~s may take 10 noninvasive cancer screening test my health, and when my doctor i+ ~
to 15 years to become cancer, so that's just what the doctor ordered, recommended a colonoscopy as I
early identification and removal of and you can do your part at home. part of routine cancer screening, I
them can effectively prevent caneer Unlike othernoninvasivecolon avoided it," said one user. ,When I Red Cross Jrges Donors lo Guve the
from everforming. In addition, cancer tests--suchasthosethat learned aboutCologuard, Ifinally t Gft Th" "
because mostpolypsandearly- only lookforbloodinthestool-- had themotivationIneeded. The Perf( ,c ,s Wnnter
stage cancers cause no symptoms, Col•guard analyzes a patient-pro- test took just five minutes at
the only way to detect them early is vided stool sample for the presence home without any prep and
through regular screening, of DNA hi•markers known to be within a week I had the results
The Problem associated with cancer and precan- and they were positive. A month Blood and platelet donations needed throughout
The American Cancer Society cerous cells in addition to blood, later, after a follow-up colonoscopy
and the USPSTF (U.S• Preventive It's this combination of blood and that confirmed there were cancer- holiday season r
Services Task Force) recommend DNA detection that makes Col•- •us cells, I had surgery to. remove
that men and women get screened guard a powerful new weapon in several tumors, one of which my
for colon cancer beginning at age the war on colon cancer, oncologist believes could have The American Red Cross urges components, and plasma and Ghent " '
50; unfortunately, only half of HowItWorks metastasized. Today, I'm on the eligible donors to give the perfect gitt platelets are then safely and 11/26/2016"1--m 6~m Ghent
those who should get screenedTaking the test is simple. First, road to better health and thankful
actually do• As a result, many a licensed health care provider to have been offered Col•guard as this holiday season - a lifesaving comfortably returned to the donor. Fir° no..+ oa~ ~ ~v~'~'~
blood or platelet donation By rolling '%Vith must a little extr i ~ ='~v~' ..... ..... v .....
patients aren't diagnosed until the prescribes the test and a collection a screening option." • + a t me at vummers
late 'stages, when treatment is dif- kit is sent to your home. The box If you're over 50, get screened, up a sleeve, donors can help ensure their appointment, donors can have Hinton
ficult and survival rates low. arrives at your doorstep, so you Do it now before the busy holiday patients• continue, to rec.e~ve an even greater impact on patients 12/8/2016"8 a m - 2 p m,
• The challenge with colon cancer can collect your sample according season is upon us. It's one project crea~men¢ mrougnou¢ me nouaay in need," added Jay. Summers County- " High .... School, One
is that while the most widelyto your schedule. Simply collect a that's actually much easier than season. Upcoming blood donation Bobcat Drive
adopted screening option-- stool sample at your convenience you mayimagine, tr:U~y holiday sehedu]esand opportumties:
colonoscopy--is highly effective, the (no medication, dietary restric- Learn More chaliend;-~a~ ma=~u ~ murUfor r-m +-- a ..... +^ G reenbner How to donate blOOdsimply download the Amencan
procedure is invasive and usually tions, bowel preparation, sedation, To learn more about the ive a~d s ~s,,.= ........ w wnarmco Red Cross Blood Donor App~, visit
requires bowel preparation and time off of work or transportation prescription-only test,visit g , 0 many bUSinesses ann 12/12/2016:8 a.m.- 2 p.m.,rodernm~hlnn~l nr~,nr,~ll 1 Rnn ~n
sedation, making it undesirable for required) and send the kit back to www.C0loguardTest.com, organizations postpone hostingGreenbrier West High School, One C+R'()'SS+~I'8OO'~,'-~-::~,\:-"~: ....
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cancer. Both false positives and false negatives do occur. Any positive result should be followed by a diagnostic colonoscopy. A negative Col•- , . . . . ..... • • • r" • lntormaclon. /~kll OIOO{1
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4. Rich people and celebri- 4. B. False. The Organ Procure- ment possible.
+ sorts of uses, hemp threatened to list. In West Virginia political races the DEP has enlisted WV
compete with the newly emerging have always been rigged. Homeland Security to remove
drug, paper, synthetics and fuel But now elections can be the public's right to know the
industries, ,= :: + centrally hijacked and on a much locations of tanks containing this
These entities therefore decided larger scale (see blackboxvoting, corrosive waste•
to get rid of it. Suppressing all coln). According to county records
exonerating studies, by 1961, th~ Such controls have brought about statewide, there has never been
Doctor's Advice
"From self-examsfor breast can-
cer to mole checks for skin cancer,
we encourage patients to stay vigi-
lant and take health into their own
hands," said Lawrence Varner,
M.D., a family physician,: "Unfortu-
Though it had beencultivated Unfortunately electronic voting Covering up this dangerous
for thousands of years for all machines were also on their wish fact in every conceivable way,
you can continue to participate in of marijuana, hemp was demonized these are" no taxes, unrestrained well. This waste has nowhere safe
a screening program at an inter- nationally, pollution and low wages, to go. Nowhere.