Colorectal Cancer - Letters to the Editor

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, April, 2002

These two reports, one from Australia and the other from Japan, were in 1994 and 1995. It is doubtful if over the past seven years there has been a single patient having surgery for colorectal cancer who has been given cimetidine at the time of surgery.

Now it follows that we have more than one way to avoid death from colorectal cancer. We can turn vegetarian; by eliminating red meat from diet and substituting fish and poultry in its place, the risk of colorectal cancer may be greatly reduced.

Perhaps Burkitt was right about fiber in diet. One may eat whole grain bread and have in diet high fiber food such as beans and prunes.

It may be as the Drs. Garland suggest, that taking vitamin D and calcium as a supplement will greatly reduce that risk of colorectal cancer.

But lastly, if one has surgery for colorectal cancer, it would be well to buy some non-prescription Tagamet and take it before surgery and for one year thereafter.

Wayne Martin

25 Orchard Drive

Fairhope, Alabama 36532

Phone/Fax 251-928-0150