Corrective cancer is extremely prevalent, although -lamentably- is costing many lives in Puerto Rico.
Agencia Latina de Noticias Medicina y Salud Pública.
“It is estimated that each day diagnoses 5 new cases of colorectal cancer and that 1 in 20 poor people will suffer from the disease”, así afirmó la gastroenteróloga Bárbara Rosado en el marco del Caribbean Breast Symposium realized on days 2 and 3 of this year at the Journal of Medicine and Public Health (MSP).
Despite the fact that the figures are not the most ambitious, they have demonstrated a magnificent advance in the island in terms of education and prevention. In the last years and proposed – and in large part – by the administrative order 334 of March 3, 2015, the ordinance of detection of the occult song was ordered as an annual requisite from the quarantine years of edad., Have a mayor mayor on behalf of the boric population.
“There was a change in the panorama. Antes de esa orden, in the 2014 and todavía in the 2016, only 18% of the population is sometime in rehearsals of singing occult; for 2017 he has a despair and a lead in conscience, but around 70% of patients are, at least, in the process of celebrating with occultism ”, afirmó la doctora ‘n MSP.
Signs and sins of can correct
Between the sinuses, referring to the galena, are located the rectal tube or cams in the cartridges of the evacuations; es decir, persons with a regular patron who comienzan to padreinimiento o, by the contrary, of diarrhea. It also includes abdominal pain, weight loss, anemia or low hemoglobin.
However, it is important to note that some of these patients do not present symptoms. For this it is necessary to carry out diagnostic tests or follow-up as the examination of positive occult blood or colonoscopy.
“It is very important to establish a temperament detection program for general population patients, patients who do not have symptoms or who do not have a risk factor for somnolence tests such as colonoscopy, because this is a cancer that in Puerto Rico is “Highly prevalent, on the other hand, is the second cause in Puerto Rico, after the mother’s cancer in the woman and the prostate cancer in the man”, declared the doctor Rosado.
It is a highly preventable disease that forms adenomatous polyps, their precursors. By means of colonoscopy, these polyps can be detected, which will prevent an eventual transformation into cancer.
Colonoscopy and other modalities of colon cancer detection
“Colonoscopy is the hereditary diagnostic tool, only allows us to take samples and make a definitive diagnosis of a cancer and its condition, because we also allow the precursors of the cancerous cancer that are polyps, which we can extend during procedure ”assured Rosado in the interview conducted.
In addition, colonoscopy offers a unique solution for any other modeling of detection, although there are others such as occult blood tests, fecal DNA or virtual colonoscopy. However, if some of these tests show evidence of a positive or abnormal result, the recommendation is to perform a colonoscopy test.
Risk factors in Puerto Rico
Among the risk factors that have been identified as increasing the incidence of colorectal cancer in adolescent patients are diabetes, among other conditions with high prevalence in the island. For another lady, the doctor signals the diet low in fiber and the sedentary lifestyle.
Además, existen patients with mayor correct corrections. Between them, the doctor mentions water to the wounds haya diagnosed previously polyps in the colon and patients with historical history of colorectal cancer.
“If a patient is diagnosed at the age of 38 years with colorectal cancer, then he or she will have to go through the procedure ten years ago,” the doctor explained.
Another population with risk of this disease is its patients with intestinal inflammatory disease, specifically when it affects the colon, patients with ulcerative colitis and patients with Crohn’s disease: “These patients also occasionally perform a colonoscopy of vigilance annually with a biopsy to detect colon-level lesions that may become dysplasia and which may cause the colon to be removed.”
Ultimately, the gastroenterologist claims that he also has a high risk of developing this cancer in people who sometimes radiate malignancy during their adolescence or, for example, flaxseed.
“It’s important that our people ask the question about their medicine. Tienen que realizarse la prueba; the best test is what is realized, that discusses with his doctor and gastroenterologist the options and the distinctive diagnostic tools to be able to have a much more salutary population ”, aanbeveling la doctora.