Small bowel

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• Many small bowel causes of blood loss go undetected because the small bowel is long and hard to reach and therefore difficult to evaluate.
• If your cancer of the small bowel is a type of sarcoma called a GIST (Gastro intestinal stromal tumour), you may have imatinib (Glivec).
• The bowelis divided into the Small bowel or small intestine Large bowel or colon and rectum The small bowel The small bowel is actually the longest part of the bowel - about 20 feet long.
• In most adults, the small bowel is about 21 feet long.
• The small bowel is also called the small intestine.

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