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.
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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 MoreThe gastroenterologists and staff at MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center are dedicated to providing quality, affordable care to the greater New Orleans 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).
MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center is skilled in performing a myriad of digestive procedures, including colonoscopy, esophageal dilation, flexible sigmoidoscopy, upper endoscopy and small bowel enteroscopy.
Our New Orleans gastroenterologists and staff at MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic 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 New Orleans area.
At MGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center, your time is as valuable to us as it is to you. Upon scheduling your surgery, a member of our staff will provide you with the required forms to fill out.
Learn MoreMGA Gastrointestinal Diagnostic and Therapeutic Center accepts most major insurance. As a courtesy to you, we will bill your insurance carrier; however, we cannot tell you what your policy will cover.
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I have been going to MGA for years. I see Dr Marino is always cheerful and he really cares about my stomach issues. I had an EGD and all the staff were kind and efficient. The office is run on an efficient and runs on time. I would recommend MGA to anyone.
Doctors did good with checking me out & taking good care of me.. Didn’t remember anything after the procedure, but no issues.. Also they done a good job calling you back a week later to see how you’re feeling which is a plus & the doctor called back to check up on you & tell you what’s going on..
It was very good Dr. Marino was great. Al the personal were very helpful and attentive.
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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As with the prior colonoscopies with MGA, I had a very positive experience this time! My initial pre-op visit with Dr. Lilly was good, with all of my questions answered. And the visit with the scheduler was efficient and I was given the option of choosing the pill form of prep. I will always choose the pills for any future visits, because the pills were much more palatable while working just as well as the liquid. On the day of the colonoscopy, I was again satisfied by the experience, because all stages of prep were professionally handled. My procedure found four polyps. A few days later, I was informed by phone that all were benign. My only difficulty was that I was unsuccessful in trying to access this biopsy information via the Patient Portal, because that system did not recognize my log-in name and password (after numerous attempts). I was unsuccessful again after contacting MGA, which said they emailed a new link for me to update my password, but I never found that link in my email inbox or junk mail box. After informing MGA again of this continued problem, I was phoned with the biopsy information on a later date.