Chemotherapyinvolves the use of anticancer drugs to shrink/kill cancer cells. The drugs enter the bloodstream and therefore goes around the body. It is commonly prescribed for advanced (stage 3 or 4) cancers to control the cancer and occasionally stage 2 colon cancer after surgery to decrease...
About 1 in 3 Americans aged 50 to 75 years, or 23 million people, have not been screened for colorectal cancer as recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), according to new data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is a "distur...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), showing the percentages of adults in various states and metropolitan areas in the U.S. who are 50 years old and older and have had a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy, including 60.7% in Alabama, ...
Screening helps prevent CRC by finding precancerous polyps so they can be removed before they turn into cancer. According to a 2013 report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about one in three adults (23 million) between the ages of 50 and 75 years old are not ...
Prevention of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that people at average risk of colorectal cancer get a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 45. [21] Screening tests like colonoscopy may identify precancerous polyps, which a doctor ...
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