Join Dr. Kenneth Hopland as he discusses the importance of colon cancer screening, and gives more details about the screening options listed below.
When Should I Start Screening?
Most guidelines recommend average-risk individuals start screening at age 50.
African Americans and people with a family history of cancer or polyps should start screening earlier.
What Screening Options are Available?
Colonoscopy. Often called “the gold standard” colonoscopy is the only screening that both detects and prevents cancer. Colonoscopy is shown to reduce the incidence of cancer by 89%.
Hemoccult (FIT) Testing. An at-home test that screens for blood present in stool sample.
Cologhard. Another at-home test, Cologuard also screens for blood in stool, as well as pre-cancerous DNA.
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