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GastroCare Bahamas

68 Collins Avenue - Centreville Medical Centre - Gastrocare
Nassau
Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas


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April 18, 2023
Preventable, treatable & beatable

If you have people in your life who you love, you do not want to cause them unnecessary and undue stress. This is something that I try to live my life by.

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Colorectal cancer
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March 07, 2023
Colorectal cancer

Awareness months, weeks, and days help to bring a greater understanding of illnesses and issues that affect people. March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and serves to get people aware of what colon cancer is, how it can be prevented and how it can be treated.

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July 01, 2016
Janet Bostwick to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

The country's first female member of parliament, first attorney general and the first woman to act as prime minister (during the absence from the country of both the prime minister and his deputy), Janet Bostwick will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award during the fourth Bahamian Icon Awards.
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May 10, 2016
A common itching, burning problem

By age 50, approximately half of adults have had to deal with the itching, burning, discomfort and bleeding that can signal the presence of hemorrhoids.

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February 22, 2016
The constipation epidemic

Up until a year ago Kayla Smith (name changed), mid-40s, was plagued with constipation -- for decades.

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March 17, 2015
A misdiagnosis that could have proved fatal

Terrell Cleare, 44, is a survivor of a disease that is almost 100 percent avoidable -- colon cancer.

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March 10, 2015
Colon cancer -- the disease that is almost 100 percent avoidable

Among cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is the third most common in The Bahamas behind breast cancer and prostate cancer.

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March 18, 2014
The rise and fear of colorectal cancer

As a young, black man, the last words I would expect to hear are, "You have colon cancer", but with local doctors seeing a marked increase in cases among young blacks in The Bahamas there is a greater need for earlier screening.
According to Dr. Eugene Marcus Cooper, owner of GastroCare Bahamas, 25 percent of people being diagnosed with colorectal cancers at his clinic on Collins Avenue in the pas...

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