Colon Quotations

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

When your body absorbs toxins, it stores them in fat, which is why fiber and probiotics are strategic weapons for weight loss. Fiber keeps your colon healthy and reduces your body's absorption of toxins.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

Unfortunately, less than five percent of people diagnosed with cancer will be treated through enrollment in a clinical trial. Our organization is very supportive of the Coalition and its efforts to accelerate research. We believe that in recent years patients have received better treatment options in trials, and if we can educate people about clinical trials I am confident that we can increase enrollment in these high-priority colon cancer trials.

We know he has ability, but he's inexperienced. So I thought losing Colon was a bad break for them and a good one for us. Mike trusted him right down to the seventh inning, and unfortunately, we couldn't cash in on some of the opportunities we had.

We did have some opportunities because of the errors. We did capitalize on one of them, but their pitching was just too good. Colon is one of the best pitchers in the league and he showed that again against us.

Several earlier studies have found that, among patients with a history of colon polyps or cancer, regular aspirin treatment prevents the recurrence of precancerous polyps. However, the ability of aspirin to reduce the long-term incidence of invasive cancer has not been well-demonstrated. Our study did find a protective effect of long-term aspirin use on risk of invasive colorectal cancer, but only at dosage levels considerably higher than those used to prevent cardiovascular disease.

No one should die of colon cancer; it is so curable if caught early.

I lost my father to colon cancer but am happy to say I have several family members who are long time cancer survivors. Everyone needs to be pro-active and know the various warning signs. We still need to find the cures, BUT early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

Gilles Colon led CIS in returns prior to coming here so it's not a new thing to him but it is a new thing to him in our league.

Gilles Colon had a very good day in terms of kickoff returns but you always wonder if you had your starter (Stokes) there, would he even been a bit better?

Her large colon got wrapped around a stomach muscle near her spleen. She couldn't eat or go to the bathroom, she kept throwing herself against the wall or rolling on the ground, she was in so much pain.

There are studies which show the more excess weight a person carries, the greater the risk of some cancers, such as breast, kidney and colon to name a few,

We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.

We've done focus groups by the dozens and people find it motivational, ... They get the message and recognize it's colon cancer and are supposed to go to their doctor and get a test.

We are seeing a 50 percent reduction in the risk of colon cancer when we compare the top 20 percent of the population of women who in mid-life are exercising at the equivalent of an hour of walking a day,

When we take a look at the budget for the National Institutes of Health at $28 billion, it is, candidly, scandalous that with our resources, our resource capability, research capability in biomedical science, that people are still dying of breast cancer or colon cancer or heart disease.

We got a few runs off Colon and that was very pleasing. It feels great to win here.

Even though it's increased, it's still not as prevalent as colon cancer,

The risk of dying of breast cancer increases as BMI increases, ... The risk of dying of colon cancer increases in the overweight as well as the obese.

Sometimes you really do have to tip your cap to the other guy. I mean, Colon is a legitimate Cy Young type of guy, and Lackey is right up there in the league in strikeouts. But tonight, we should have scored some runs off this guy. The rest of the league does. We're the only team the guy shuts out.

Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.

People who eat high fiber tend to have a healthier lifestyle and a more healthy diet. Those things together may reduce the risk of colon cancer.

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.

The best thing about Colon is you know his fastball is coming, but you still can't lay off the high pitch. He's effective with that and that helps make him a winner. When he's locating and throwing strikes, he has a lot of success.

I knew coming in, with Colon being a potential Cy Young winner, there'd be very little room for error, ... He was amazing.

His dad died from colon cancer in 1994, in May.

If everything works out -- if IGF-2 status is tied to colon cancer risk in people and the blood test is workable -- then IGF-2 status could be the colon cancer equivalent of cholesterol levels as a risk factor for heart disease. We've never had a broad molecular screening tool like that for any cancer.

Colon was amazing, ... I mean, he's throwing 95-96 in the ninth and 10th innings. That's video-game stuff.

Colon cancer takes about 10 to 15 years to develop, and follow-up of the study was only 7 years." ()

Colon cancer screening is probably one of the most underused ways to save one's life from cancer that exists.

The Colon trade was the start of everything, ... It started the change. That was the defining trade.

The Colon trade was a decisive move, and every move after that was clearly in the direction of, rebuild with a foot on the accelerator, ... That's what it had been until maybe August last year. Everything since then has been, 'Let's see what we can do to try to finish off building the team within the constraints of the market.'

Cast iron rules will not answer what is one man's colon is another man's comma

I had a lovely military flight, thank you. I love spiraling in -- nothing like that to make your colon go, "Fire in the hole!