6 sentences with 'colon'
Example sentences and phrases with the word colon and other words derived from it.
• « In a pilot study, the same medical treatment was given to two groups of colon cancer patients, but some were also given psychological support to encourage optimism. »
• « For example, the MYCIN programme - a diagnostic system specialising in infectious diseases - gives the doctor this kind of answer: "There is a 74 percent chance that your patient suffers from the inflammation of the colon called Crohn's disease". »
• « Alarmed, her sisters Peggy and Carol, like her, consulted their doctors, and were shocked by what they were told. Not only were they at high risk for cancer of the colon and endometrium (the lining of the uterus), but their chances of getting ovarian cancer were extremely high - up to 50 percent. »
• « Carol had a small malignant tumour in her colon, in exactly the same place as her paternal grandfather, who died of it at the age of 33. »
• « Dr Lynch has observed that, in families with a high incidence of cancer, colon cancer develops at 44 years of age on average, when it most commonly occurs between 60 and 65, and breast cancer strikes at around 42 years of age, rather than at 60. »