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This session will be about colorectal cancer and some tips you can use to improve in terms of prevention and detection of this disease. It is very important to detect and diagnose in the early steps of the disease to treat it and for fast recovery.
Some measures to prevent this disease are avoiding unhealthy habits such as an unbalanced diet, moderate consumption of alcohol, and not smoking. One of the best tools to detect cancer early is the screening of colorectal cancer. This screening can be done by means of a fecal sample or directly through a colonoscopy. The talk discusses the optimal age to start colorectal cancer screening.
To sum up, the detection and prevention of colorectal cancer are very important because they help society be healthier and suffer fewer diseases, so that fewer surgeries will have to be performed.