Increasing Awareness of Colorectal Cancer: Changing Colonoscopy Prep

In this edition of The Onco’Zine Brief Peter Hofland, Ph.D. talks with Dr. William R. Stern, M.D., a board-certified gastroenterologist and Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, at the Capital Digestive Care group outside of Washington, DC, about advancements in colorectal cancer screening. Also joining us today is Sue Spielberg, a patient of the Capital Digestive Care group. At the beginning of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, we talk about colorectal cancer and the prevention of this form of cancer. One of the best screening tools to help prevent colon or colorectal cancer is a colonoscopy. And colonoscopies are highly effective screening tools – considered the ‘gold standard’ - used to not only detect colon cancer, rectal cancer, and other conditions – but to actually help prevent these conditions from developing.Colonoscopies are very safe, but not completely without risk. However, and this is what every gastroenterologist, every oncologist, and in fact, every physician will tell you, … colonoscopies are done every day by experienced physicians… But more importantly… they will tell you that your chances of getting colon or colorectal cancer far outweigh the possibility of complications from a colonoscopy.In the program, Hofland, Stern, and Spielberg talk about one of the issues most patients undergoing a colonoscopy may find hard to deal with… It is what happens before the actual procedure: the preparation or prep. With the HyGIeaCare® System, physicians can offer their patients a simpler and easier bowel prep for a colonoscopy.About The Onco'Zine BriefThe Onco'Zine Brief is distributed in the United States via PRX (Public Radio Exchange). In the United Kingdom and Europe, the program is distributed via UK Health Radio (UKHR). And the program can be downloaded via most podcasts and streaming media services, including iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, and iHeart Radio.For more information about The Onco'Zine Brief or how to sponsor or support this public radio broadcast and podcast, visit: https://www.patreon.com/theoncozinebriefFor more information about cancer and cancer treatments, visit our online journal Onco'Zine at www.oncozine.comTo sign up for The Onco'Zine Newsletter (open for residents of the United States only), text the word CANCER to 66866.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-onco-zine-brief--2786156/support.