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VIDEOS FOR LAY PEOPLE


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CLOSE UP with Dorie Lenz
WB-17 Community Close Up (3038 B)
Interview with Dr. John H. Marks
Length: 14:11
© 1999 Tribune Entertainment Company

Celebrating a milestone historic triple occasion for colorectal cancer management, Dr. John H. Marks talks candidly about the second largest cancer killer in the US: Colon and Rectal Cancer. Dr. Marks describes screening techniques, discusses prevention options, warning signs and indicators, identifies risk groups and reveals technological breakthroughs that are proactively saving lives.



VIDEOS FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

These are technical movies that bring you into the operating room. The material may be inappropriate for non medical personnel and proper discretion should be used.


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Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery
for Select Regions of the Rectum
Dr. John H. Marks
Length: 18:02

Doctor John H. Marks performs Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery and demonstrates the tools utilized to perform this state-of-the-art surgical technique.


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TATA Procedure
Transanal Abdominal Transanal Radical Protosigmoidectomy with Descending Coloanal Anastemosis

Dr. Gerald J. Marks
Length: 31:00

Training film of Dr. Gerald J. Marks performing his original TATA procedure. This operation was developed to allow rectal cancer patients to avoid a permanent colostomy bag. Patient is a 49 year old woman with low rectal cancer.


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Laparoscopic Colostomy
Dr. John H. Marks
Length: 31:00

Dr. John Marks demonstrates the techniques and tools used to perform this surgical procedure. This video gives one an introduction into the equipment used and techniques of laparoscopic colon surgery.

"Laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery is a method of performing operations with diminished trauma of entry into the abdominal cavity. This allows patients to recover quicker, with less pain, and early return of bowel function from an intra-abdominal procedure."

Dr. John H. Marks