Get a Colonoscopy. Video for Health Care Deliver in pharmacy school. Just having fun. Plus a little colonscopy footage

Tour my inside with virtual colonoscopy (CT), meet my two polyps and listen to their singing, before they were removed (Sept. 2005). טייל במעי הגס שלי וצפה בשני הפוליפים שלי כשהם שרים “אני פוליפ, אני פוליפ שמח ומבדח… ד”ר ישראל שפירא, חיפה 2005.

This video is from a colonoscopy where a very large colon polyp was removed by Dr. Joseph Galati, located in Houston, Texas. This was the case of a 40 year old gentleman who presented with rectal bleeding, and assumed this was bleeding from hemorrhoids. On colonoscopy, it was discovered that there was a very large colon poly in the sigmoid colon, which was removed. It was not malignant. Colon cancer occurs in 101000 adults every year, and 40000 cases of rectal cancer yearly. There are 50000 deaths each year from colorectal cancer.

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FOX21′s Craig Coffey offers up his own experience to show the importance of having routine colonoscopies, and that it’s not as bad as you might think.

This is a procedure to screen the colon.

How a Virtual Colonoscopy can help detect colon cancer.

Karl explains a colonoscopy