In a webinar that originally aired live on April, 22, 2014, Dr. P. Ravi Kiran, Chief and Program Director of the Division of Colorectal Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center discussed the surgical treatment of colorectal cancer.

Topics included the symptoms of colorectal cancer, how colorectal polyps are detected, and screening tests for colorectal cancer. Surgical treatments mentioned were the colectomy, partial colectomy, and complete rectal resection.

Transcript: 

I was diagnosed in May of 2013 which was my graduation day. I'm gonna cry I'm sorry. Do you guys get criers? 

My name is Adalis Martinez and I'm 23 years old. I think I was 18 when I started noticing, ok I have a sensitive stomach, or I have irritable bowel syndrome which was what like every doctor kept saying. Until I asked them to do a colonoscopy and they were like "no you're way too young that's crazy why would you do that?", and I insisted and eventually they did it and they found the polyp there. 

Dr. Ravi P. Kiran welcomes patients to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center's Colorectal Cancer Awareness Day event.

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