The golden boys of gastroenterology II

The golden boys of gastroenterology II

ZOOMING IN Rudy Romero 03/22/2010 This is not a column on medical science, but because of the very good reception that “The Golden Boys of Gastroenterology (March 17)” received, I have decided to do a follow-up column. The timing is perfect for a follow-up column on gastroenterology because this week will see the holding of the conventions of two societies whose members are involved in medical practice involving eight of the human body’s most important parts, namely, the liver, stomach, gall bladder, pancreas, large intestine, small intestine and rectum of an individual. The societies are the Philippine Society of Colorectal Surgeons (PSCRS) — its convention will be its first — and the Ostomy Association of the Philippines (OAP). A participant in those events will be the Enterostomal Therapy Nurses Association of the Philippines (ETNAP). Greater public awareness and treatment of gastroenterological diseases could be neither more important nor more timely. Cancer of the colon (large intestine) and rectum or colorectal cancer (CRC) has become the third most common cancer and cancer-death cause in the Philippines. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100322com3.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Fatwa is an endorsement FRONTLINE This business of impeachment ZOOMING IN The golden boys of gastroenterology II C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Poll failure, no; No-proc, maybe DIE HARD III Edsa II Frankenstein monster HE SAYS Color blind SHE SAYS The heat is on