Prevent Colorectal Cancer

Screening

Can I protect myself from colorectal cancer?

To work toward cancer prevention, choose to live a healthy lifestyle that includes regular exercise, maintain a healthy weight with a diet that is low in fat and high in fiber, vegetables and fruit.

Visit your doctor so he or she can check your colon for polyps and cancer. Screening recommendations depend upon an individual's risk of colorectal cancer. The goal is to identify people at high risk of developing colon cancer and screen them earlier than the general population.

The Florida Hospital Digestive Health Center works closely with the Florida Hospital Cancer Institute (Florida Hospital Cancer Institute) to increase awareness of the importance of routine screenings for colorectal cancer. Screenings can find colorectal cancer early, when treatment can be very effective.

Screening Recommendations

The Florida Hospital Digestive Health Center and Florida Hospital Cancer Institute encourage you to follow these screening recommendations:

Average-risk individuals (age 50+ without any symptoms; colorectal cancer in non-first degree relatives):

• Baseline colonoscopy at age 50
• Fecal occult blood test performed once a year beginning at age 50
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy performed every five years beginning at age 50
• Double contrast barium enema (DCBE) every five years, or colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50

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