Colon Health

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Screening tests check for signs of disease before symptoms appear. Because most colorectal cancers begin as precancerous polyps, screening tests are crucial to finding and removing these polyps before they turn cancerous, or to catch cancer in its earliest stages when it is most treatable.

Federal guidelines recommend that everyone start getting screened for colorectal cancer at age 50. However, your doctor may recommend you start getting screened earlier if you have: 

• a close relative with a history of colorectal polyps or crancer, or if you have had them yourself
• Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or another inflammatory bowel syndrome
• familiar adenomatous polyposis (FAP), Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer) or another genetic predisposition to colorectal cancers

If you experience any of the following symptoms, talk to your doctor and find out if you need a colorectal cancer screening:

• blood in your bowel movements
• persistent stomach aches or cramps
• unexplained weight loss

Source: CDC. “Colorectal (Colon) Cancer.” https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal