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Ok! (HealthDay)—If you've got a family history of colon or rectal cancers, you probably need to start screening for these conditions before you turn 50, a cancer expert says. Ad People with a close relative who has had colon orrectal cancerhave a greater risk of being diagnosed with t...
"If a patient's family history is not updated during early and middle adulthood, the opportunity may be missed to intervene with earlier or more intensive screening that maximizes the likelihood of detecting cancer at an early, treatable stage," write the study authors, led by Argyrios Ziogas,...
The data provide a basis for recommendations that relatives of these patients should enter screening programmes at age 40 to 44. 展开 关键词: colorectal cancer lifetime risk family history DOI: 10.1136/jms.7.3.136 被引量: 160 年份: 2000 ...
Conclusion Here we show that current UK guidelines on endoscopic screening of patients with a family history of colorectal cancer (which do not regard polyps as a familial risk factor) result in approximately 135 preventable cases of CRC per annum. Given the small effect size, a formal study to...
history of adenomatous polyps then you must speak to your doctor and check with them on the need to start screening before the age of 45. Screening helps in detecting this cancer early and therefore if you have had colorectal cancer then you must inform your close ...
Family history by itself is not a strong predictor of exactly who will acquire colorectal cancer within 20 years. However, stratification of risk using absolute risk probabilities may be more helpful in focusing screening on individuals who are more likely to develop the disease. Genet Med 2011:13...
National guidelines recommend people of average risk of developing colorectal cancer begin screening at age 45. However, Dr. Lisa Boardman, a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist, says if your family has a history of colon cancer or if you have a hereditary co
Individuals with a family history of colorectal cancer are at an increased risk of developing it themselves. Colonoscopic surveillance from the age of 40 or even earlier has been recommended; however, there is little evidence regarding the benefits of this policy. Dove-Edwin et al. undertook a ...
In our departments we evaluate our practice and screening colonoscopy has been a recent area of analysis. Methods We retrospectively interrogated endoscopy databases in two typical district general hospitals. We selected out colonoscopic investigations with a "family history of colorectal cancer" as the ...