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Rectum (Prefix)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

For example, prostate cancer patients frequently suffer radiation damage to their bladder and rectum, but the new system cuts down the risk of harm in these areas.

CANCER patients in the south [...]

The rectum is like a short fat tube which collects the waste before it goes out of your bottom -- mine was floppier than it should be, so instead of sitting upright to allow waste to pass through, it had collapsed inwards, blocking the exit.

Doctors said I had IBS - in fact I'd suffered a prolapse; Rectal ...

Bleeding from the 'back passage' or rectum will be an indicator of a number of potential ailments.

What Does Bleeding from the Rectum Indicate? We Reveal All

The research -- carried out as part of the Million Women Study -- suggested that about 7,000 cancer cases a year were caused by women having a small daily alcoholic drink, 5,000 in the breast and the rest in the rectum, liver, mouth and throat.

'One drink a day increases a woman's cancer risk'

Around 5,000 of these cases are related to breast cancer but others are cancers of the rectum, liver, mouth and throat.

Women warned off the drink; The World Today

incidence rates of the most common cancers per 100,000 people, by race All White Black Asian/Pacific Hispanic Men Islander Prostate 158 150 236 85 135 Lung and bronchus 87 87 107 52 51 Colon and rectum 61 61 69 46 52 Women Breast 124 126 112 82 91 Lung and bronchus 55 57 51 27 27 Colon and rectum 45 44 52 34 36 SOURCE, BOTH: AHMEDIN JEMAL ET AL.

Science stats: state of cancer

Overall, one-year and five-year survival rates for bladder, colon, lung, oesophagus, prostate, rectum and stomach cancers among men were lower in the primary care trusts in the poorest areas.

People in poorer areas less likely to survive cancer, figures show

Maintaining Continence Continence depends on properly functioning muscles and nerves in and around the rectum and anal canal.

An overview of bowel incontinence: what can go wrong?