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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.
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Más informaciónOur gastroenterologists and staff at Valley Digestive Health Center are dedicated to providing quality, affordable care to the community in our 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).
We believe in compassionate medicine, where patients feel reassured and unrushed. We hold ourselves to the highest of standards, as our center is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
Our board-certified GI doctors specialize in a myriad of GI procedures, including colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and upper endoscopy.
If you are due for a colonoscopy or in need of a GI procedure, don’t put it off any longer. Give us a call today!
Valley Digestive Health Center is committed to ensuring that your experience with us is relaxed and worry-free, from consultation through recovery. To assist us, we ask that you read and comply with all guidelines.
We’re pleased to partner with StopColonCancerNow to help boost colon cancer screenings and prevention for residents in Los Angeles County.
At Valley Digestive Health Center, your time is as valuable to us as it is to you. That’s why we provide online access to a variety of forms that patients may complete before their visit. The following documents will help us expedite the check-in process for your appointment. Please take a moment to download and print the appropriate form(s).
Learn MoreValley Digestive Health Center accepts most major insurance. We will bill your insurance carrier for you; however, we cannot tell you what your policy will cover. Since your insurance policy and coverage are between you and your carrier, we urge you to contact them prior to your procedure. You will be responsible for any co-pays and deductibles.
Learn MoreEverybody is so professional. Nice, helpful and polite. Everything is so clean, comfortable. Dr. Tarakji as always the best doctor ever! (For me!) Thank you for everyone!
Considering the procedure that I had, this was one of the best places I’ve ever been. The staff from the initial office visit to the discharge from the facility after my procedure was easy, friendly and helpful. I will definitely return and refer anyone that needs these services. Thank you Dr Mourani and all the staff!
Everyone at Valley Digestive Health Center was very professional and courteous. I was treated with respect and dignity. The procedure was explained to me and results were provided before I left the facility.
Professional, professional, professional - careful record taking, solicitation of questions, unbelievably painless phlebotomy of IV into my hand without bleeding or bruising! Immediate feedback of visual findings with images and no pain. The whole colonoscopy took less than 2 hours.
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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