Colorectal Cancer Screenings and Treatment
April 14, 2010
Colorectal cancer, often referred to as colon cancer, is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but it doesn¹t have to be. This disease is largely preventable and highly curable with regular screening and early detection. Learn more about colorectal cancer.
The Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care offers an array of specialists who are experts in screening and treating colorectal cancer. Colonoscopies and other screening procedures are provided here in Danvers. Expert inpatient care, including screenings, are also provided at North Shore Medical Center facilities in Salem and Lynn and at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Screenings are the best way to prevent and detect colorectal cancer. Testing is critical because early colorectal cancer often has no symptoms. Find out when you should be screen and learn more about
screening methods.
To schedule a screening, please call our access line at 877-313-0503.
Our access specialists will assist you in finding an available physician, ensure you are properly registered and assist you in getting a referral from your primary care physician.
The Mass General/North Shore physicians who provide colon cancer screening:
Gastroenterologists
- Gregg Brodsky, MD
- Khoa Do, MD
- David Forcione, MD
- Ronald Hartfelder, MD
- Nicholas Karamitsios, MD
- Myles Keroack, MD
- Melissa Minor, MD
- Albert Namias, MD
- Joshua Namias, MD
- Jeffrey Oringer, MD
- Daniel Pratt, MD
- Michael Thiim, MD
- Vijay Yajnik, MD, PhD
Surgeons
- Liliana Bordeianou, MD
- Janey Pratt, MD
- Jaime Rivera, MD
- Marc Rubin, MD
- Russell Ryan, MD
