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Alberta Breakthrough: Colon Cancer

Original Air Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012

No one likes the test for colon cancer, a fecal smear you provide from home. But the world hasn't seen a new test in fifty years. Now, researchers at the University of Alberta are developing a simple urine test which would replace the fecal smear.

If pre-cancerous polyps aren't caught they become cancer - completely preventable colon cancer.

Dr. Richard Fedorak is Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta and one of the doctors developing this new test.

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Alberta Primetime is a daily current affairs show airing weeknights from 7pm MST to 8pm MST. Airing across Alberta on CTV Two Alberta, Alberta Primetime drills through the surface of current issues to explore the ideas and concerns of Alberta’s real energy sector – its people...

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