They spread tips to prevent colon cancer

03/31/2019 –

Today we remember the day
Cancer of the world
Colon, and with that reason
of the endoscopy company
of Santiago del
Estero recommended to
healthy people perform
a colonoscopy
after 50 years
detect or throw
the presence of polyps
who can produce
disease.

Doctors Conrad
Alcorta (m) and Carlos Gonzalo
Quinteros, president
and vice respectively
of the endoscopy company
of Santiago del
Estero, they recalled that the
colon cancer is one of the
the most common cancers
around the world, and that
in Argentina they are detected
13,500 new cases
per year.

"Healthy people,
who have no symptoms
no family history
they are the ones who must
pay attention to measures
of prevention. Those
people, at age 50, they
must perform a colonoscopy
which is the standard study
for prevention
of colon cancer, "they said.

According to professionals,
detected over time, 9 out of
all 10 patients are cured.

"Colon cancer is
produced accordingly
hereditary factors
and environmental issues that are related
with food
and lifestyles. So
primary prevention happens
for a high fiber diet,
less red meat and
fat, increased consumption
dairy products; l & # 39; increase
physical activity,
avoid overweight and decrease
the consumption of alcohol
and tobacco ", they recommended.

The other type of prevention
This has to do with
studies like colonoscopy
once a year between
50 and 75 years old and the test
of hidden blood in the material
fecal

"From 80% to 90%, the injury
the precursor is a polyp
Adematosus and progression
from an ademate to a carcinogen
is approximately
from 10 to 15 years, which is
the right time for
window of study, "they said.
Doctors Alcorta and
Quinteros

Regarding the symptoms
which can be a sign that
there is a problem they stressed
to anemia, the loss
weight, abdominal pain,
bloody stool, alteration
the pace of evacuation,
change of caliber
feces, among others.