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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Colon Cancer is 1 of the starring causes of cancer-related deaths successful the state -and yet, galore Americans are inactive hesitant to get screened.
Dr. Ashishek Guilati, a gastroenterologist astatine Community, says that much than 50,000 Americans volition beryllium diagnosed with colon crab this year, and what makes the quality successful whether a diligent survives oregon not is however aboriginal the crab is detected.
"So if a colon crab gets diagnosed erstwhile it's signifier one," helium said. "Like a comparatively ample polyp astatine that stage, the five-year endurance for the patients is supra 90%."
Dr. Abhishek says colon crab tin adjacent beryllium prevented if caught aboriginal enough.
"Compare that with colon crab diagnosed astatine a aboriginal stage," helium said. "Stage four, the five-year endurance drops to similar 14%."
The cardinal to prevention and survival, Dr. Abhishek says, is getting screened.
"I deliberation the colonoscopy remains the golden modular for respective reasons," helium said.
However, the doc added that this method for colon crab screening arsenic good arsenic definite investigating tin origin hesitation successful immoderate patients.
"There is simply a definite consciousness of embarrassment having to woody with the stool sample, taking it to the lab, mailing it in, immoderate patients don't privation to bash that astatine all," helium said.
But now, Dr. Abhishek says determination is simply a humor trial that tin besides observe colon crab making the screening process little stressful for patients.
"What the humor trial is, it's a elemental humor draw, but it was detecting what is called a cell-free DNA," helium said. "Which means that determination are these fragments of DNA insubstantial that are circulating successful the blood, that the tests are delicate capable to prime up and these DNA fragments are being shed by the tumor."
The trial is capable to observe definite mutations wrong the DNA and find if the diligent has colon cancer.
"So they recovered that erstwhile the trial said, yes, determination is simply a accidental that you whitethorn person colon cancer, it was sensitive, it was close successful astir 83%," helium said.
Although the results are not 100% accurate, it's inactive a starting constituent for those wanting to get screened.
"So there's astir an 83.1% accidental that you whitethorn person colon cancer, but it besides means astir 17% of the times erstwhile the trial said nary suspicion, patients inactive had colon cancer," helium said.
The doc says that a colonoscopy volition ever beryllium the champion mode to find if the diligent has colon cancer.
"So if you are opposed to having a colonoscopy, you don't similar the thought of having a stool trial done, now, determination is perchance a humor test," helium said. "The cardinal is aboriginal diagnosis. And the mode to bash that is with antithetic screening tests."
