With increasing incidence of colorectal cancers in Asia, health authorities are strongly recommending screening at the age of 50 to detect early and surgically curable colorectal cancers. Of all the screening methods, fiberoptic colonoscopy remains the gold standard. It is safe, accurate and well tolerated by patients. It can also be used to excise polyps …
People normally associate colorectal cancers with older people. This is true to a certain degree. Eighty percent of newly diagnosed colorectal cancers are in the above 70 age group, and these are what surgeons call sporadic cancers. Of the remaining 20{26c205fc26e42be79727af59b14797f17f5f7e1d599c7296cf0e8e8c0e228eb6}, about two thirds affect young people below the age of 50, and the remaining …
Cancers of the colon and rectum are now the top cancers in men and women. From 2009-2013, nearly 9000 cases are diagnosed in Singapore, mostly in the Chinese ethnic group. Early colorectal cancers (Duke’s Stage A and B) are curable by surgery alone. Late stages (Duke’s C and D) will require chemotherapy for control of …