Saturday, October 22, 2011

Do Men Need Colon Cancer Screening Earlier Than Women Do?

(HealthDay News) -- Men may need to begin colon cancer screening earlier than women, new research suggests.

The study found that men were far more likely to have potentially precancerous lesions (also called polyps or adenomas) in their colon -- 24.9 percent of men compared to 14.8 percent of women -- and to have them at an earlier age.

"In our study, analysis of age- and sex-specific prevalence of adenomas, advanced adenomas and colorectal cancers indicates a significantly higher rate of these lesions among men compared with women in all age groups, suggesting that male sex constitutes an independent risk factor for colorectal carcinoma and their precursor lesions, and indicating new sex-specific age recommendations for screening colonoscopy," said study author Dr. Monika Ferlitsch, an associate professor of medicine at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Read more...

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