Screening examination for Colorectal Cancer.

All people with risk for colorectal ought to have a colonoscopy examination every ten years when they turn fifty. African Americans should start to do the colonoscopy examination at age forty-five.
Regular exams for colon cancer and rectal cancer help to diagnose it at an early stage. If found at its earlier stage, the chances of the successful treatment of the disease are drastically increased.
Aside from regular check-ups, please train your body awareness. This means that you should learn more about the individual features of your own body. You should notice changes like bleeding or unusual excreta. In such cases immediately inform your doctor about them.

What is good to know about a colonoscopy?
Your colon must be clean, you must follow a diet a few days before the procedure. You should abandon the consumption of solid food and coloring liquids to avoid any waste in your colon. You must drink a special mixture to empty your colon completely.
You will be locally anesthetized with a sedative before colonoscopy, then the medical provider will insert a colonoscope with a camera and light on it into your rectum and move it into your colon. Pre-cancerous polyps can be removed during the colonoscopy.
Methods of screening for colorectal cancer:
An X-ray examination of the colon using low dose computed tomography (Virtual colonoscopy) You should get virtual colonoscopy more often over the regular colonoscopy (every five years after fifty. African American men and women should start examination at age forty-five). Upon detection of polyps, a regular colonoscopy will be performed.
During the X-ray of the colon, a doctor performs a low dose computed tomography of the abdominal cavity and pelvis to make 3D images. The image shows polyps and other colon and rectum abnormalities.
You must follow the same preparations for virtual colonoscopy as before a regular colonoscopy. Your colon must be completely clean of waste. Sometimes there are tiny or hard-to-see polyps that can be missed during virtual colonoscopy.
If your doctor detects polyps or something suspicious, you will need to pass a regular colonoscopy.
Stool-based (feces) tests – If you choose stool-based (feces) tests over colonoscopy or virtual colonoscopy, you should get your examinations more often (every year after fifty. African American men and women should start examination at age forty-five).
There is no special preparations for stool-based (feces) tests. You may be asked to avoid some foods or medications before the test. Feces-based tests look at the stool (feces) for signs of cancer or pre-cancers. There are three main types of stool-based (feces) tests:
• Stool DNA tests can detect abnormal DNA in the cells of a stool sample that happen as colon cancer develops.
• FOBT (Fecal occult blood tests) to check feces samples for occult blood.
• FIT (Fecal immunochemical tests) are also used to find proteins in blood in your stool.
Colorectal cancer risks and symptoms
Adults at increased or high risk are more likely to get colorectal cancer. It doesn’t mean that you necessarily get cancer. Mostly, colorectal cancer has no symptoms at the early stage. It often starts with polyps, different types of growths along the colon wall. They can bleed or block the bowel. However, you may need to start examinations at an earlier age, get additional tests, or get tested more often. Please discuss it with your doctor.
Reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer
Researchers have found several risk factors that might increase a person’s chance of developing colorectal polyps or colorectal cancer. But the next choices of healthy lifestyle-related factors will reduce the chances that you will get the disease.
• Please train your body awareness. Get screening examinations for colorectal cancer, it’s most treatable at an early stage. Watch your body shape, fat increases the risk of colorectal cancer.
• Exercise regularly. Regular moderate or vigorous physical activity can help to reduce the risk.
• Limit the consumption of red meat. Cooking red meat at very high temperatures increase your risk. Red meat includes pork, beef, lamb, or liver.
• Following a healthy eating diet that includes 2/3 of your plate fruit and vegetables and of course whole grains. The other 1/3 should be a lean animal protein or plant-based protein. Lack of vitamin D also increases your risk.
• Avoid processed meat like bacon, luncheon meats, and hot dogs.
• Limit the consumption of alcohol. It’s best not to drink alcohol.
• Smoking is a cause of lung cancer, but it is the reason for other types of cancer, such as colorectal cancer. Stop smoking. If you don’t smoke, don’t start