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Loma Linda University: Build Your Awareness About This Precancerous Disease, Prevent Colorectal Cancer
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March 16, 2022
College softball team bullpen manager Phillip Gomez and his team had returned to their home turf in Alabama in March 2019 after finishing a three game series in Mississippi when then 26-year-old says he experienced first-time, excruciating stomach pain. The pain persisted for months as Gomez rapidly lost weight, weakened, and underwent multiple emergency department visits and ICU hospitalization.
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He moved closer to his family in California, where he was able to undergo three surgeries at Loma Linda University Medical Center to cure him of ulcerative colitis. One year later, Gomez says he feels he is in the best physical and mental shape of his life and hopes to spread the word about the precancerous condition this Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
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