Small bowel cancer is an uncommon type of cancer that occurs in the small intestine. Your small intestine, which is also called the small bowel, is a long tube that carries digested food between your stomach and your large intestine (colon).
The small intestine is responsible for digesting and absorbing nutrients from the foods you eat. It produces hormones that help with digestion. The small intestine also plays a role in your body's germ-fighting immune system, as it contains cells that fight bacteria and viruses that enter your body through your mouth.

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NETRF is committed to presenting the most current, timely, and credible information about NETs and NET care, so we’ve begun to refresh older episodes to bring them up-to-date. This is a revised version of an episode that originally aired in December of 2020, where we focused on diagnosis and treatment of NETs that start in the most common primary site for neuroendocrine tumors, the small intestine.
Did you know that 12% of gastrointestinal (GI) NETs are found in the small bowel? The small bowel, or the small intestine, is one of the most common places NETs form. If you are living with a small bowel NET, this episode is for you. In this episode, you will learn more about the anatomy of the GI system and the different parts and functions of the small bowel. You will also learn more about tumor biology and how small bowel NETs can greatly differ from one another. Finally, this episode details how small bowel NETs grow and what disease progression looks like. We will also cover the extensive treatment options available and new research for small bowel NETs in interviews with NET specialists, Dr. Mark Lewis, Dr. Dan Halperin and Neena Vijayvergia.
Specialists:
Dr. Mark Lewis, MD: an Oncologist and Director of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah.
Dr. Dan Halperin, MD an Oncologist and Clinical Investigator and NET specialist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.
Dr. Neena Vijayvergia, MD, FACP: an Oncologist and Associate Professor of Hematology and Oncology and Assistant Chief of GI Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
Special thanks to Quintin Ness for sharing his story.

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0:00 Introduction
2:24 Causes of Colorectal Polyps
3:13 Symptoms of Colorectal Polyps
3:45 Diagnosis of Colorectal Polyps
4:19 Treatment of Colorectal Polyps

A colorectal polyp is a polyp (fleshy growth) occurring on the lining of the colon or rectum.[1] Untreated colorectal polyps can develop into colorectal cancer.[2]


Colorectal polyps are often classified by their behaviour (i.e. benign vs. malignant) or cause (e.g. as a consequence of inflammatory bowel disease). They may be benign (e.g. hyperplastic polyp), pre-malignant (e.g. tubular adenoma) or malignant (e.g. colorectal adenocarcinoma).



Colorectal polyps are not usually associated with symptoms.[2] When they occur, symptoms include bloody stools; changes in frequency or consistency of stools, such as a week or more of constipation or diarrhoea;[3] and fatigue arising from blood loss.[2] Anemia arising from iron deficiency can also present due to chronic blood loss, even in the absence of bloody stools.[3][4] Another symptom might be increased mucous production especially those involving villous adenomas.[4] Copious production of mucous causes loss of potassium that can occasionally result in symptomatic hypokalemia.[4] Occasionally, if a polyp is big enough to cause a bowel obstruction, there may be nausea, vomiting and severe constipation.[3]