According to the data of the third report of the ONS – National Observatory for Screening, tests for the detection of occult blood in feces in our country recorded a decrease of 1,100,000 units compared to 2019, with a national average delay of 5.5 months in screening programs. And again: it is estimated that in 2020, 1,300 cancers and 7,400 advanced adenomas – i.e. polyps in an advanced stage of transformation towards cancer – were lost at the diagnosis of screening. Nicola Silvestris,member of the Aiom Board of Directors and oncologist of the ‘Giovanni Paolo II’ Cancer Institute of Bari Irccs, he explains how to do primary prevention and what are the possibilities of treatment even in an advanced stage today.
No smoking and no alcohol, more healthy food and exercise: how to save your colon
