Tuesday 2 August 2011

Prevention Of Colon Cancer

Your best prevention is to detect colon cancer and treat it early in his training. People who have regular screening for colon cancer, including fecal occult blood test, sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy and polyp removal, significantly reduce their risk of developing colorectal carcinoma.

Other things you can do to reduce the risk are as follows:

Quit smoking. Cigarette smoking was clearly associated with an increased risk of colon cancer (and many other factors).

Take an aspirin or baby aspirin every day. Because of the potential side effects is not recommended for everyone. Talk to your healthcare provider.

Take a safe dose of folic acid (eg 1 mg) daily.

Physical activity every day.

Eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables every day.

These techniques will be used:

Fecal occult blood test every year combined with flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years

The barium enema every 5-10 years Double-contrast

Colonoscopy every 10 years, colonoscopy remains the most sensitive test to detect colon polyps and tumors.

Once polyps are identified, should be eliminated. After you have had polyps or polyps, you should start having colonoscopies more often.

Appropriate persons preventive screening in ulcerative colitis are as follows:

Colonoscopy every 1-2 years in the following cases:

If you know you have the disease 7-8 years

If the cancer involves the entire colon

Beginning 12-15 years after diagnosis of ulcerative left

Random biopsies of the colon during colonoscopy is

People who have ulcerative colitis, biopsies show that premalignant changes should make the surgical removal of their colon.

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