Colon Cancer: Polyps, The Main Precursors
Colon cancer: Polyps, the main precursors.
Certain types of polyps that grow in the colon are the precursors of more than 95% of cancer cases in this organ. The risk appears at the 50-year border and could be avoided with the detection and removal of these premalignant lesions.
The colon cancer or colorectal cancer is precisely the most frequent tumor diagnosed in USA, with 41,441 cases in 2015. In both men and women, it is the second most frequent tumor after prostate and breast cancer.
Despite the frequency, it is a tumor whose survival has doubled in the last 20 years. In addition, retrospective analyzes have shown five-year survival rates after surgery of metastases of up to 70%, "a milestone and a breakthrough", considers this scientific society.
But still more than 15,000 people die every year in USA as a result of cancer of the large intestine and rectum, according to 2014 data from the sources, although the trend is decreasing.
A mortality that could fall even more …
