For healthy people at risk, screening tests begin

Strategies to reduce mortality from colon cancer

simple. For healthy people at risk, screening tests begin

50 years of age and the preferred approach of screening

colonoscopy every 10 years, an alternative strategy

consists of annual stool blood test and flexible

sigmoidoscopic exam every 3 to 5 years. Colonoscopy surveillance (and call screening colonoscopy)

should be available at more frequent intervals for

those at high risk of developing levaquin 500mg tab colon cancer (eg,

those with a personal history of colorectal cancer

or adenomatous polyps, family history of colorectal

cancer, non-hereditary polyposis, colorectal cancer.

or predisposing conditions such as inflammatory bowel

disease (Medicare provides for surveillance colonoscopy

no more than once every two years for those

high risk.)

As for the medium and high risk, all

precancerous polyps potential should be removed.