Essential Health Screenings All Women Should Have Done

Colonoscopy

A colonoscopy is not how most individuals want to spend their afternoon, but it is a critical part of catching colorectal cancer before it gets out of hand, sometimes even before symptoms appear. As ninety percent of all colorectal cancer is treatable when caught in its early stage, most health professionals recommend for women to have their first colonoscopy done at age fifty. If no one in a patient's immediate family has been diagnosed with colon cancer and as long as no other digestive conditions exist, they will only need one every ten years to check for polyps.

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