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Healthy Choices Can Lower Your Colon Cancer Risk
A new study finds you can lower cancer risk by 40 percent by changing your lifestyle, and colon cancer is one type that is most responsive to habit changes.
It’s time to screen for Colorectal Cancer! It could save your life.
Request a Colonoscopy TodayBy May 31, 2022, most health insurance plans will fully cover this procedure to evaluate a positive stool-based test for colon cancer. Check with your insurance about your coverage.
Learn MoreOur Oakland gastroenterologists and staff at East Bay Endosurgery Center are dedicated to providing quality, affordable care to the community in their quest to lower colon cancer rates and treat an array of digestive diseases including Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). East Bay Endosurgery Center is skilled in performing a myriad of digestive procedures including colonoscopy, esophageal dilation, flexible sigmoidoscopy, upper endoscopy and small bowel enteroscopy.
Additionally, our patients value the compassionate care they receive from our GI doctors and say they are likely to recommend our center for GI procedures.
Our Oakland gastroenterologists and staff at East Bay Endosurgery Center are committed to ensuring your experience with us is relaxed and worry-free, from your first office visit through your post-procedure follow-up. To assist us, we ask you read and comply with all guidelines.
We’re pleased to announce our partnership with StopColonCancerNow.com to help boost colon cancer screenings and prevention for residents in the Greater San Francisco area.
At East Bay Endosurgery Center, your time is as valuable to us as it is to you. Upon scheduling your procedure, a member of our staff will provide you with the required forms to fill out.
Learn MoreEast Bay Endosurgery Center accepts most major insurance. As a courtesy, we will bill your insurance carrier for you; however, we cannot tell you what your policy will cover.
Learn MoreI have been here 3 times for my colonoscopies and it went really well, everything was very easy and friendly. The last one this year 08/24 I was prepped by a nurse who was particularly kind and funny. Dr Woo has good bed manners and is efficient. They have a patient portal for correspondence. The are responsive and professional. Great practice overall I would say.
Great experience. Made what can be a very stressful procedure very easy and anxiety free.
Everything went smoothly for my procedure. The staff were very helpful and engaging during my time there.
A new study finds you can lower cancer risk by 40 percent by changing your lifestyle, and colon cancer is one type that is most responsive to habit changes.
Read MoreColon cancer in adults younger than 50 continues to rise, but numbers may decline if young people don’t delay in seeing a doctor if they experience the symptoms of colon cancer.
Read MoreA recent study found that fewer than half of patients who had an abnormal stool-based colon cancer screening test completed a follow-up colonoscopy within six months.
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From checkin til checkout the staff were wonderful, friendly, informed and helpful. Dr Stollman is the best, kept me appraised of my situation and advised me about diet etc to help me. Thank you.