Health screening or checkup are a set of diagnostic and biochemical tests that look for internal signs of lifestyle diseases that usually don’t show any external signs. These tests also catch cancers before any signs or symptoms appear.
Cancer screening help in:
Lowering the number of people who develop the disease
Finding a non-invasive treatment and cure
Saving lives
Reducing out of pocket expenses
Screening for colorectal cancer
Regular health checkups can help in preventing colorectal cancer by finding the polyps before they turn into cancer. Based on your age, family’s medical history and your physician’s advice, you can choose your screening tests. Colorectal cancer does not show signs or symptoms until it reaches its last stage where cure becomes impossible.
Importance of family history
Understand if your family has any of these in their medical history:
Colorectal cancer or polyps in a parent, or sibling,
Personal history of chronic inflammatory bowel disease
A family history of any hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome like lynch syndrome
Tests to detect colorectal cancer
Colonoscopy
Sigmoidoscopy
Computed tomography/ colonography
Fecal occult blood test
Risk factors for colorectal cancer
Age
Gender
Family history
Inherited genetic conditions
Adenomatous polyps
Personal history of ovarian cancer or uterine cancer
Inflammatory bowel disease
Obesity
Physical inactivity or sedentary lifestyle
Inadequate diet
Smoking cigarettes
There are other chronic diseases as well that can be detected at an early stage with full body screening tests . Know more about such tests that can analyses your complete body and find out any health conditions that might be developing unnoticed. Find out the best place near you where these tests are available.
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