Colon Cancer Screening Should Start Sooner Not Later

If you're in your thirties or even your early forties then you probably haven't thought much about a lot of the annual and semi-annual preventive health scans that are out there. That's because a majority of this screening isn't strongly recommended until later ages of life. This includes colorectal cancer screening which is designed to prevent colon cancer which is a serious problem for people today. And it's a problem you might need to start thinking about sooner rather than later because studies suggest that screening should begin at younger ages than those which are currently recommended by most doctors.

Traditionally it has been recommended that regular colon cancer screening begin around age fifty. However, this information is based on the fact that cancer rates rise significantly around this time. New studies show that pre-cancerous growths take a long time to develop which means that the disease could effectively be stopped from spreading if people caught it in their forties. This suggests that the timeline for recommended procedures should be moved forward approximately ten years.

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Question of the Day: When do you think we should start getting regularly colon cancer screening?

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