Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Health Tips, Your Health
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Here are the most common myths about this disease that I hear from my patients.
Myth:
“I feel fine, I have no pain or feel any lumps- there is no way for me to have colon cancer”
Reality:
Most patients who underwent screening colonoscopy and a colon cancer were found did NOT have any symptoms. Most importantly, those are the cases that are curable! By the time symptoms developed, unfortunately it is often already too late. 91% of patients with cancer that were detected early are alive and well 5 years after diagnosis. But only 37% of all colorectal cancer are diagnosed at this stage- we can do better, this is the most preventable cancer with screening.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
The Mount Sinai Health System is taking steps to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through a new multidisciplinary program that combines the best of urology, pathology, and radiology to analyze and inform medical care for each patient.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
There were countless acts of selfless dedication demonstrated by Mount Sinai staff when Hurricane Sandy devastated New York City in October 2012, but one team was recognized formally with an award for its extraordinary coordination of patient care and leadership during and after the storm.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Inside, Your Health
Hundreds of staff, employees, and community residents participated in heart-healthy activities throughout the Mount Sinai Health System, an annual effort in February, Heart Health Month, to educate individuals about the risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Your Health
My name is Andrew Styles and I was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2000. I hope my personal experiences help others by inspiring them to share their own stories. Anyone can get the Hepatitis C virus (HCV or Hep C): women, men, gay, straight, young and old; it does not discriminate.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Health Tips, Your Health
For centuries before becoming the sweet treat we know today, chocolate, the product of fermented cacao beans, was used as medicine. Early Aztec cultures concocted remedies using cocoa from the “chocolate tree” to ease intestinal complaints and upset stomach, control diarrhea, reduce fevers, and boost strength before military conquests. Later eras linked chocolate to other properties, such as a cure for “chocolatomania” cravings in the mid-1900s, which were believed to occur in young women.
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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Here are the most common myths about this disease that I hear from my patients.
