Tag Archive for Bowel

The effects of hypnosis on Irritable Bowel Syndrome

What is Irritated Bowel Syndrome? Irritable bowel syndrome is also known as spastic colon or IBS. It is a functional bowel disorder. It is often characterized by the following IBS symptoms: chronic abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and alteration of bowel habits with no obvious organic reason. Diagnosis is usually a question of elimination. When other bowel ailments such as bowel obstruction, bowel cancer, bowel disease, Celiac disease, or th read more

Five common symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Irritable bowel syndrome is also known as spastic colon or IBS. It is a functional bowel disorder. Five common signs of Irritable bowel syndrome include chronic abdominal pain, discomfort, bloating, and alteration of bowel habits with no obvious organic reason. For most people, IBS is a chronic condition—sometimes severe, sometimes milder. Stress, fatigue, and illness often intensify the symptoms of IBS. Many times, when life is relatively stre read more

Cancers From B to T – Most common Types of Cancer – - Bowel (Colorectal ) Cancer

Bowel cancerBowel cancer also known as colorectal cancer, is defined as a condition of the abnormal proliferation of cells in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Bowl is divided in 2 parts, the first part of the bowel, the small bowl, is involved with the digestion and absorption of food. The 2nd part, the large bowel which consist the the colon and rectum, is involved in absorption of water from the small bowel contents and broken down of read more

Can You Help Prevent Bowel Cancer by Taking Fish Oil Tablets?

Fish oil tablets contain 2 essential fatty acids called DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), which are otherwise known as omega 3 essential fatty acids. Over the last 40 years many studies have established the benefits of Omega3 fats to many areas of our health including our heart health. Studies have also shown a link between fish oil and breast cancer prevention and fish oil and prostate cancer prevention. However there a read more

Roche’s Avastin rejected by UK cost body for Bowel cancer

The U.K.’s health-care cost regulator Wednesday said it won’t recommend Roche Holding AG’s (ROG.VX) Avastin to treat patients with bowel cancer, due to the medicine’s high cost and limited efficiency. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, or NICE, said Avastin in combination with chemotherapy fails to meet the body’s standards, amid which the benefits of a drug need to justify its costs. The deci read more

How to Manage Bowel Cancer?

As years are passing by the number of patients with bowel cancer is increasing rapidly and it does not matter whether the patent is young or old or whether is women of men. Generally cancer can not be cured but if one patient is diagnosed in an early stage of bowel cancer than there is hope of good recuperation after therapy. The colon and rectum are a part of the large intestine and their function is to absorb nutrients and water fro read more

Bowel cancer patients must do without life-extending drug, says Nice

Bowel cancer patients must do without life-extending drug, says Nice Medicine that typically gives an extra six weeks of life is too expensive for NHS, watchdog rules Bowel cancer patients will not get access to a potentially life-extending drug, health watchdog Nice confirmed today. Bevacizumab, known as Avastin, can help patients with advanced bowel cancer that has spread to other organs, usually the liver and lungs. Nice (the National Institut read more

Vitamin B deficiency can increase the risk of bowel cancer

According to research from Cornell University in New York, studies carried out on nutrition and genetics in mice can help us to gain a greater understanding of how bowel cancers develop. This can be done by identifying a gene that increases the risk of bowel cancer in mice when the animals’ diets are deficient in folate. Folate is a water-soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food. The study, which is published in the March issue of Ca read more

Exercise Reduces the Risk of Bowel Cancer

People who lead healthy and active lifestyles are up to three times less likely to develop polyps, which can develop into bowel cancer, according to scientists from the Washington School of Medicine in St Louis, USA.  A polyp is a growth in the bowel, which although not cancerous, can develop into cancer over long periods of time. Most bowel cancers develop from polyps, with approximately 1 in 4 of the UK population having one by the age of 50, read more

Identifying bowel cancer symptoms and flushing it out

The human body is home to several organs and parts that function together to maintain proper health. Any problem in a single organ can result in bodily functions being impaired to a great extent. The risk of cancer has grown as the major threat to individual’s health in recent times. The rise of problems like bowel cancer has been the cause of a lot of apprehension among people. The cure to cancer lies in its early diagnoses. With the right read more