Now that rates of colon cancer are rising in younger people, age recommendations for colonoscopy were recently reduced to age 45 from age 50. Health care teams are constantly working toward awareness and countering the reasons people put colonoscopies off, such as, \u201cI don\u2019t have symptoms\u201d \u2026 \u201cI have no family history\u201d \u2026 or \u201cI don\u2019t want to drink all that stuff.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cColon cancer often has no early symptoms, and about 70 percent of cases are not genetic,\u201d Dr. Smith says. \u201cAs far as the preparation, there are newer, faster and lower-volume colonoscopy prep options available now that make the process more comfortable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halecky says the screenings are far better than the possible alternative.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say if you\u2019re in the age range, you should speak to your clinician about getting the screening done. If you\u2019re clear, you don\u2019t have to go back for 10 years,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd if you\u2019re not, you may have started saving your life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that rates of colon cancer are rising in younger people, age recommendations for colonoscopy were recently reduced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-127527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}