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Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D.

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I`m a doctor of medicine and a specialist in radiation therapy and medical oncology. I have long experience with regards to this cancer.

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I'm a Doctor of Medicine. Licensed/certified physician and surgeon and specialist in Medical Oncology and Radiation therapy in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and the European Union. Background in Radiation Therapy, Medical Oncology, Radiation Protection, Nuclear Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Gynecological Oncology, Clinical Pathology, Clinical Cytology,Hematology and Internal Medicine. M.D. from the faculty of medicine, Royal Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Have also been an exchange student at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem Israel. Former medical consultant, Swedish National Board of Radiation Protection. Former Police Surgeon and Medical Examiner, Stockholm Police Department. Former Chief Medical Officer, The Royal Guards, The Royal Horse Guards and the Royal Household Brigade, Royal Swedish Army Medical Corps. Now in private practice in Stockholm, Sweden.

I also answer questions in these categories: Oncology (General Cancer), General History, Military History, Brain Tumors, Breast Cancer.

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Recent Answers from Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D.

2009-11-21 +signet cells:

Difficult question. Your cancer was caught VERY early! Pleas if possible let me read the full pathology report of your polyp with your cancer. You can copy it here. With it I can give you a much better

2009-11-21 colon cancer:

I have in fact very little information on your husband's case. To give a good reply I would need all the information available = the same as his doctor has! Without it the only safe reply is to tell you

2009-11-17 Colon cancer -life expectancy if totally untreated:

Indeed it is! at the moment we do not even know if he has any cancer there at all even if it is possible maybe even probable. And even if he has it, we do not know its location within the colon, its size

2009-11-14 hemorroid bleeding without pain:

The significant thing here is that you are bleeding there! That MUST be investigated! The matter of pain or not is not as important. So you SHOULD let a doctor check you soonest including colonoscopy!

2009-11-13 Metastic colon cancer to laproscopy port site.:

1. Yes perhaps BUT I do not think you can afford risking anything on that scenario. Instead you MUST let the worst case scenario govern the actions here! 2. There is no such way. Most colon cancers are

 

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