What Are My Screening Choices?
The principle screening exams embrace:
- Fecal occult blood take a look at (FOBT) — to detect any blood in your stool (which might be brought on by most cancers or by different another situation).
- Fecal immunochemical take a look at (FIT) — to test for blood in your stool. This take a look at is extra correct than the FOBT.
- Stool DNA take a look at (Cologuard) — to test cells in your stool for irregular DNA that will sign you have got most cancers or polyps.
- Versatile sigmoidoscopy — to look at your rectum and the decrease a part of your colon for polyps or tumors utilizing a versatile, lighted tube.
- Colonoscopy — to look at your total colon and rectum utilizing a versatile, lighted tube. Your doctor can take away polyps throughout this take a look at however not the opposite sorts of exams.
- Computed tomographic (CT) colonography — to create detailed footage of your colon and rectum utilizing X-rays; additionally known as digital colonoscopy.
Every of those choices is offered to Fred Hutch sufferers. CT colonography is completed on the College of Washington Medical Middle.
When you’ve got an irregular FOBT, FIT, Cologuard or CT colonography, your physician will suggest that you’ve got a colonoscopy.
- Throughout your colonoscopy, your physician will take away any polyps they discover and take samples of some other irregular tissue they see.
- Tissue samples and even total polyps may be eliminated by means of the identical tube used for the examination.
- A pathologist will look at the polyps or tissue samples underneath a microscope for most cancers cells (a biopsy).
