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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katji" data-source="post: 949426" data-attributes="member: 17768">+ Problems of infection caused by fecal matter. - Serious. Difficult to avoid contamination. When I was in hospital a few years ago, a man was put in the ward, scheduled to have surgery the next day. Colon...he had to take some laxative/purgative and go poep repeatedly through the night, and that to be followed by irrigation just before the surgery. He had been through it before, so he knew. You couldn't imagine a more positive, happy person. The surgeon and the specialist were familiar with him, and somehow the story was told, so I got to hear it. The cancer had been undiagnosed for quite a while. Or maybe misdiagnosed. Basically, it was tiny tumours developing, in various parts of the body, like liable to start appearing anywhere in the body. Lots of tiny tumours, like the size of pin heads. So, problematic for surgical removal and for chemotherapy. It was only diagnosed properly after a South African specialist attended a conference overseas and learnt about it.</blockquote>