Colorectal Cancer Screening & Diagnosis
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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for men and women in the U.S. It’s also 90% preventable and curable with early detection and treatment.
If you’re 45 or older or have a family history of colorectal cancer, the most effective way to reduce your risk is to schedule a screening colonoscopy. This test searches for potentially cancerous polyps (abnormal growths on the inside lining of the colon or rectum). Catching these polyps early can stop them from ever becoming cancer, or detect the disease when it’s most treatable.
AtlantiCare Cancer Care Institute offers screening locations near where you live and work, each staffed with board-certified gastroenterologists and a caring support team. And, despite common concerns, a colonoscopy is much easier than you think:
- Fast: It usually just takes about 30 minutes.
- Simple: Uses a thin, flexible scope with a small camera attached, allowing your physician to both detect and remove polyps in a single procedure.
- Painless: Most patients experience little or minimal discomfort, and you’ll likely be given medicine to relax and sleep through it, so you don’t feel anything.
- Safe: We perform hundreds of colonoscopies every year, with little to no complications.
- Life-saving: Colorectal cancer often has no symptoms until it’s too late. A screening colonoscopy may be the only way to catch cancer early.
Call 1-888-569-1000 to schedule your screening colonoscopy today. It’s the best thing you can do for you!
Additional Colorectal Cancer Tests
Colonoscopy is considered the gold standard in colorectal cancer screening, but we also perform other standard tests to help detect polyps and signs of cancer:
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Fecal occult blood test: This test, recommended annually, looks for blood in the stool. Polyps bleed more than normal tissue and these tiny amounts of blood can be detected by a test called
hemoccult
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