{"id":110086,"date":"2024-10-03T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110086"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:37:51","slug":"more-younger-people-are-getting-colonoscopies-a-new-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110086","title":{"rendered":"More younger people are getting colonoscopies, a new study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">After the recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer was lowered to 45, there was a small but significant increase in screenings among younger people, according to a study published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?doi=10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2024.36358&amp;utm_campaign=articlePDF%26utm_medium=articlePDFlink%26utm_source=articlePDF%26utm_content=jamanetworkopen.2024.36358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAMA Network Open<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The lower screening age was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/cancer\/enormous-step-forward-task-force-says-colorectal-cancer-screening-should-n1267797\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put into place in 2021<\/a> by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which previously recommended starting screenings at age 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Colorectal cancer cases have been rising i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/colon-cancer-rates-rising-decades-younger-people-study-finds-rcna151343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">n people younger than 50<\/a> over the last two decades. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force isn\u2019t the first group to suggest lowering the screening age. In 2018, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/colon-cancer-screening-should-start-45-cancer-society-says-n878331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Cancer Society also recommended to start getting checked at 45<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The U.S. Preventive Service\u2019s Task Force\u2019s recommendation carries weight, however, because if the group endorses a screening for a particular group, insurance will cover it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The new study found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/cancer\/colonoscopy-15-years-colon-cancer-average-risk-rcna150372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">colorectal cancer screening<\/a> among 45 to 49-year-olds remains low overall, but increased threefold following the 2021 guideline change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s interesting to see how rapidly we have seen this uptake take place after the guidelines were released, especially in light of the pandemic creating roadblocks for screening,\u201d said lead study author Sunny Siddique, a cancer researcher at the Yale School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Siddique and his team looked at patient data from more than 10 million people with Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance. On average, the researchers found, colorectal screening rates among people ages 45 to 49\u00a0 increased from around 0.5% before the 2021 guidelines to 1.5% a year and a half after the change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAn increase of 1% seems small, but this is hundreds of thousands of people,\u201d Siddique said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Although all of the people in the study were insured, the researchers still saw disparities in screening uptake. People who lived in the richest areas, they found, experienced the greatest increase in screening rates.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cEven if you take out the factor of insurance, we are still seeing differences,\u201d Siddique said. \u201cIf you live in an area that is in the low socioeconomic range, your likelihood of having access to these services is lower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">About 11% of colorectal cancer cases are diagnosed in people younger than age 50 \u2014\u00a0about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/content\/dam\/cancer-org\/research\/cancer-facts-and-statistics\/colorectal-cancer-facts-and-figures\/colorectal-cancer-facts-and-figures-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20,000 people<\/a>, according to the American Cancer Society.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/colon-cancer-early-signs-symptoms-young-adults-rcna82629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Early-onset colorectal cancer<\/a> is a big deal. If you\u2019re not screening early, you\u2019re going to find those cancers at a later stage,\u201d said Dr. Christopher Lieu, co-director of gastrointestinal medical oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lieu said the results of the study are promising, suggesting awareness around the new recommended screening age is increasing, but he noted that screening among those who don\u2019t\u00a0 have insurance, who weren\u2019t included in the study, is likely lower.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cOne of the biggest predictors of whether you get age-appropriate cancer screening is whether or not you have insurance,\u201d Lieu said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The uptick in screening among the insured, Lieu said, could also partly be due to more widespread use of noninvasive colorectal cancer screening methods, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/new-home-test-could-help-colon-cancer-battle-n234281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cologuard, a stool test<\/a> that has a 92% accuracy rate, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/colon-cancer-blood-test-shield-screening-fda-approved-rcna163630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shield, a blood test<\/a> that detects colorectal cancer in 83% of people who have it. If these tests show a positive result, a doctor will perform a follow-up colonoscopy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe\u2019re taught since medical school that the best screening test is the test that gets done,\u201d said Dr. Marwan Fakih, co-director of the gastrointestinal program at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment organization in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Colonoscopy is the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening, since it can detect not only cancerous tumors, but precancerous polyps that can be removed before they can turn into cancer. But cheaper, less invasive methods, such as stool and blood tests, are important ways of getting more people screened. Still, the tests aren\u2019t for everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cFor people who have had colon cancer, or people with very strong family history, there is no alternative colonoscopy for screening,\u201d Fakih said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/cancer\/younger-people-are-getting-colonoscopies-new-study-suggests-rcna173726\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the recommended age to start screening for colorectal cancer was lowered to 45, there was a small but significant increase in screenings among younger people, according to a study &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110086\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}