{"id":88435,"date":"2018-03-15T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T08:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/colonoscopy-reduces-colorectal-cancer-death-risk-study-says\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T08:36:40","slug":"colonoscopy-reduces-colorectal-cancer-death-risk-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/colonoscopy-reduces-colorectal-cancer-death-risk-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonoscopy reduces colorectal cancer death risk, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post<\/a> was originally published on this site<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \">\n<\/aside>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 13 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> Patients in the Veterans Affairs health system who received a colonoscopy saw a 61 percent reduced risk of death from the disease, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the health system examined a national VA-Medicare database and reported their findings<\/a> Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Although colonoscopy is widely used in the VA health care system for colorectal cancer, researchers said its effect on colorectal cancer death mortality was unknown. The VA recommends a colonoscopy as a primary method for colorectal cancer screening for patients at average risk who are age 50 and older.<\/p>\n<p>In a colonoscopy, the large bowel and the distal part of the small bowel are examined using a fiber optic camera attached to a flexible tube passed through the anus.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers identified 4,964 case patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer between 2002 and 2008 and who died of the disease by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers matched 19,856 patients without prior colorectal cancer diagnosis to the case patients as a control group, finding colonoscopy was associated with reduced mortality from colorectal cancer \u2014 although the link was stronger for patients with left-sided cancer than for right-sided cancer.<\/p>\n<p>On the left side, or descending colon, most polyps and cancers appear, according to the National Cancer Institute<\/a>. Cancer usually grows around the colon wall and encircles it, usually causing partial blockage and bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>Near the cecum on the right side of the colon, cancers usually grow into the space within the colon.<\/p>\n<p>The authors wrote in the study that reducing variability in colonoscopy effectiveness, especially against right-sided colorectal cancer, is critical to prevent the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site March 13 (UPI) \u2014 Patients in the Veterans Affairs health system who received a colonoscopy saw a 61 percent reduced risk of death from the disease, according to new research. Researchers with the health system examined a national VA-Medicare database and reported their findings Monday in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}