Colon Cancer Awareness, colonoscopy. [done on ME UNSEDATED!!!!!!!]

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07/19/23

Watch live colonoscopy procedure while awake. The procedure was performed by Dr. Arshad Malik who exchanged dialogue with Dr. Brown prior, during and after the procedure regarding what was occurring and the benefits.

Dr. Kenneth Brown hopes that all that view the video will share the media or the message that Colorectal Cancer is the 2nd leading cancer killing disease in the U.S. and that screening procedures performed in a timely fashion can help to STOP this disease!

Dr. Brown has also created a video regarding the colonoscopy prep to help ease any apprehension regarding the prep process - https://youtu.be/85qNPVKWMn0

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Video transcript:
Did you know that March marks the beginning of colon cancer awareness month among cancers that affect both men and women?

Colorectal cancer which is cancer of the colon or rectum is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States.

I'm Dr. Kenneth Brown a board-certified gastroenterologist colon cancers and second leading cause of cancer death every year more than 140,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer and more than 50,000 people die from it and getting a
colonoscopy can actually prevent colon cancer it's a fact colon cancer screening saves lives it just so happens that it's my turn for a colonoscopy because of my age and family history I need a colonoscopy.

If everyone followed the screening guidelines meaning getting a colonoscopy when you turn age 50 or older or starting at age 40 if there's a family history then many of these deaths could be avoided I thought that we would film everything and show everybody what it's actually like it's not that big of a deal my goal is to bring a little bit of awareness about colon cancer and I also hope that at least one person sees this video and if they are encouraged to schedule their colonoscopy then this will be worth it
we're going to walk you through the whole process my goal today is to show everybody how easy this whole process actually somebody were to see this and they actually are thinking about getting a colonoscopy they'll realize it's just not that big of a deal so in a few moments we're going to go into the room and you're going to be able to see my colonoscopy and the whole process that actually happened.

So we're about ready to get started here I did want to mention one thing I'm going to do my procedure without any anesthetic and that's just so that I can talk to everybody and explain what's actually going on but I do want to let everybody know that all of our patients actually go to sleep and it is a completely painless process.

In my case I've chosen to do it this way so let's go meet my colleague dr. Arshad Malik who's actually going to be doing my colonoscopy this is our Sean Malik he's my colleague that I've chosen to do my colonoscopy today we're gonna be looking for polyps if you do find any polyps we were able to take them out this is a biopsy channel that we can insert instruments through to be able to remove polyps cut polyps to do all kinds of maneuvers while we're in there.

Will it hurt?
You do that the colon doesn't have traditional nerve endings it doesn't respond to being cut so you're not going to have any pain when we remove the polyps so the colonoscopy is actually not just a diagnostic procedure it can be both diagnostic and therapeutic might be real bloated afterwards you actually use carbon dioxide instead of just normal air when we're opening up your colon when we're blowing it up so you may have minimal bloating afterwards.

But you shouldn't have any pain or discomfort perfect I'll tell you what I don't want to make you late let's go ahead and get started here let's see what we can do all right sounds great vitals look good my team's ready we just waiting on dr. Malik and we're going to get started here in just a second.

So one of the concerns that a lot of patients have or at least patients that have told me is that they always say well I don't want you looking at my butt as you look at this we take modesty very seriously and all eyes are going to be on this screen over here the most important thing is that everyone looks at the screen not at the patient's bottom so we keep everybody covered up and then once we get started all eyes are going to be on that camera so contrary to what people think nobody even looks at the bottom down here okay.