Colorectal cancer
Remove Heidelberg (AP) – Anyone who regularly undergoes a colonoscopy, while pre-cancerous lesions can be recognized, falls ill after a study of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), rarely in colon cancer.
The Heidelberg researchers had the benefit of colonoscopy according to indications from Monday at around 3300 Saarlanders asked. Previously, only the data had been available from clinical trials.
The investigation has been among people who had undergone in the past ten years, a colonoscopy, “found much less advanced stages of colorectal cancer.” “Especially in the left pane of the intestine is the risk for colorectal cancer and its precursors” drastically reduced, said the researchers. The results underline the great potential of colonoscopy for early detection of colon cancer.
The surveyed in the study Saarlander had attended a colonoscopy (colonoscopy) in the wake of the statutory scheme for cancer screening. They were asked whether they had undergone in the last ten years prior to the screening colonoscopy already a colonoscopy.
Accordingly, from the nearly 600 people who already had a colonoscopy behind, only 36 had advanced precancerous lesions in the intestine. This corresponds to 6.1 percent. The study found about 2,700 participants who were first to undergo a colonoscopy, at 308 persons (11.4 percent) such advanced stages.
In the so-called leftist, “descending” part of the intestine, where the cancer occurs most often discovered in the participants with previous colonoscopy two thirds less advanced precancerous lesions than in participants without previous colonoscopy.
Tags: colon cancer, colonoscopy, Colorectal cancer
