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Mark Gimbel MD: The one interesting thing about colon cancer is typically a colostomy
bag is not required. Stage II and stage III colon cancer patients are not usually obstructed,
their tumors come out easily and it is easy to put them back together. A lot of patients
see me with the fear if they are going to need a bag and how am I going to deal with
this for the rest of my life. In the very rare chance that I do have to use a bag, I
can always tell them that this is temporary and in six to eight weeks, we can go back
and reverse it. So, the biggest fear of having a colostomy is usually way blown out of proportion.
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