Keeping away the preventable colorectal cancer | Healthy SA [Video]

SAN ANTONIO — March is colorectal cancer month, a time to bring awareness to a disease that is highly preventable, colorectcal cancer. In today’s Healthy SA KENS5’s talk to the experts about the signs you need to look out for and when you need to start getting those life-saving screenings.

The reason why colonoscopies are so important is because you can detect cancer in the pre-cancer phase.  If doctors find suspicious looking polyps and those polyps are removed, you can prevent colon cancer. Dr. Sukeshi Arora, a medical oncologist and leader of the GI Malignancies Program at the Mays Cancer Center within UT Health San Antonio said, “Colorectal cancer encompasses colon and rectal cancer. The rectum is the lower part of the colon or the large intestine. So we usually lump them together but they’re treated a little bit differently.”  

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