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Health fair offers
‘walk-thru’ colon, screenings and information
GREENVILLE – “We may have saved a life today,” said Jill Brown, RN,
Wayne HealthCare Cancer Coordinator. She was referring to the
‘Walk-Thru Colon’ offered to visitors to the hospital’s 41st Annual
Darke County Health Fair Oct. 13.
By mid-afternoon, approximately 600 people had visited the health fair
being held in the Youth Building at the Darke County fairgrounds; about
500 of them had gone up to the upper level to ‘walk through’ the
inflatable colon. Of those, according to Brown, 20 have signed up for a
colon screening. Noting early screening is the key, she said “colon
cancer can be prevented.”
The inflatable colon display is broken into three distinct areas. The
first is a healthy colon. The second shows multiple polyps (which could
either be benign or malignant), and the third shows the onset of
cancer. The purpose of the screening is to catch the polyps (in section
two) before they turn into colon cancer.
John Dutro, M.D., and his partner David Ware, M.D., handle both the
colonoscopies and the surgeries if polyps are present. “My group
started coming up from Dayton in 2007,” he said. “Darke County went
from 6-8 surgeries a year to about 30 a year now...
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