{"id":2102,"date":"2024-03-13T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2024-03-13T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:32:19","slug":"colon-cancer-blood-test-shows-promise-for-early-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Colon Cancer Blood Test Shows Promise for Early Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many patients are reluctant to undergo colonoscopies or conduct at-home fecal tests. Doctors see potential in another screening method.<\/p>\n

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Early detection of colon cancer can prevent a majority of deaths from this disease, possibly as much as 73 percent<\/a> of them. But just 50 to 75 percent<\/a> of middle-aged and older adults who should be screened regularly are being tested<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One reason, doctors say, is that the screening methods put many people off.<\/p>\n

There are two options for people of average risk: a colonoscopy every 10 years or a fecal test every one to three years<\/a>, depending on the type of test.<\/p>\n

Or, as Dr. Folasade P. May, a gastroenterologist at UCLA Health puts it, \u201ceither you take this horrible laxative and then a doctor puts an instrument up your behind, or you have to manipulate your own poop.\u201d<\/p>\n

But something much simpler is on the horizon: a blood test. Gastroenterologists say such tests could become part of the routine blood work that doctors order when, for example, a person comes in for an annual physical exam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think this is going to start taking off,\u201d said Dr. John M. Carethers, a gastroenterologist and the vice chancellor for health sciences at the University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n

About 53,000<\/a> Americans are expected to die from colorectal cancer this year. It is the second-most common cause<\/a> of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and while the death rate in older adults has fallen, it has increased in people under age 55.<\/p>\n

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Many patients are reluctant to undergo colonoscopies or conduct at-home fecal tests. Doctors see potential in another screening method.Early detection of colon cancer can prevent a majority of deaths from this disease, possibly as much as 73 percent of them. But just 50 to 75 percent of middle-aged and older adults who should be screened regularly are being tested.One reason, doctors say, is that the screening methods put many people off.There are two options for people of average risk: a colonoscopy every 10 years or a fecal test every one to three years, depending on the type of test.Or, as Dr. Folasade P. May, a gastroenterologist at UCLA Health puts it, \u201ceither you take this horrible laxative and then a doctor puts an instrument up your behind, or you have to manipulate your own poop.\u201dBut something much simpler is on the horizon: a blood test. Gastroenterologists say such tests could become part of the routine blood work that doctors order when, for example, a person comes in for an annual physical exam.\u201cI think this is going to start taking off,\u201d said Dr. John M. Carethers, a gastroenterologist and the vice chancellor for health sciences at the University of California, San Diego.About 53,000 Americans are expected to die from colorectal cancer this year. It is the second-most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, and while the death rate in older adults has fallen, it has increased in people under age 55.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2104,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}