Periodic examination can be an effective weapon against cancer, as it helps to discover some tumors months ago, or even years before the person feels enough fatigue to visit a doctor. What are the cancers that must be done to detect and when the patient should start?
Cancer is a general designation of a group that includes more than a hundred types of diseases, and despite its large number, the US Prevention Services Task Force, a group of independent medical experts, recommends a periodic examination of 4 types: lung cancer, breast cancer, colon and rectal cancer, cervical cancer, for this quadruple group, found, found The work group is that the periodic examination can save lives without exposing many people to wrong diagnosis, additional tests, or unnecessary treatments.
“The periodic examination is one of the most important factors helping to reduce cancer deaths,” said Robert Smith, the epidemic scientist at the American Cancer Society for the American New York Times.
Why should you perform a periodic examination of these cancers?
Dr. John Wong, Vice President of the Labor, said that the team is regularly reviewing the evidence related to cancer examination, and issues recommendations designed according to age and potential risk factors. These recommendations are for healthy people, so if the patient appears to the patient, the doctor may wish to perform cancer examinations regardless of age or another medical examination date.
It is recommended to perform all four tests because it reduces cancer deaths, as the team models show a decrease in lung cancer deaths by 13%, and a decrease in breast cancer deaths by 28%to 30%.
Dr. Smith added that in addition to early detection of cancer, colon, rectum and cervix can also help prevent disease.
Doctors can remove the meatic appendages, or suspected tissue tissues that are likely to be cancerous, in the colon and the neck of the uterus.
The work team models show that the examination reduces colon and rectal cancer deaths by 79% to 85%, and a decrease in cervical cancer deaths by 80% to 87%.
“Patients need to be examined regularly,” said Marie Reed, an epidemic at the Roswail Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in the United States.
She recommended consulting a doctor about the number of times the examination, based on the patient’s level of danger, the type of examination used, and the results of previous examinations.
When should the patient examine?
The idea lies in examining people who are senior enough to expect cancer, but they are at a young age enough to achieve the full benefits of early detection and treatment.
- Lung cancer: Any person between 50 and 80 years old and has a long history of smoking to perform a low-doses compared to a LOW-Dose CT Scan.
- Breast cancer: Women between the ages of 40 and 74 should perform X -ray imaging regularly.
- Colon and rectal cancer: Any person between 45 and 75 years old should conduct a colon endoscopy examination or home stool analysis.
- Cervical Cancer: Women between the ages of 21 and 65 should perform a routine cervical cancer examination, with a cervical smear or perhaps the HPV test.
A recent study has found that among tens of thousands of people eligible to conduct multiple cancer tests, 65% of them underwent breast cancer and colon and rectum cancer, while only 17% underwent lung cancer examination.
Dr. Teres Beves, a family medicine doctor at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, advises to speak to the doctor about early examination, and the examination can also be inquired outside these guidelines if the patient feels a great danger because of family history, or some genetic mutations.
But it should be noted that the examination outside the instructions is more harmful than its benefit in accordance with the studies.
Other types of cancer tests
There is not enough evidence to recommend early examination of some types of cancer such as skin, mouth and bladder cancer, in other cases – such as ovarian, pancreas, testicle, and thyroid gland – the work group found that examining people who had no symptoms can lead to many wrong results and complications without reducing the risk of death.
For this reason, the work squad recommends not to examine older men to detect prostate cancer, but it says that men between the ages of 55 and 69 should talk to their doctor to discuss damage and benefits.
Dr. Mary said that most of the prostate cancers grow so slowly to the point that they will never pose a problem, while the examination can reveal these tumors, it risks a series of unnecessary treatments, diseases and complications, such as rectal bleeding and impotence.
“Sometimes, treatment is worse than cancer,” said Dr. Mary.