Follow these 6 tips to avoid colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in women and the fourth in southern Vietnam, manifestations of non-specific disease, the advice is to eat a lot of fiber to reduce meat, to increase exercise, to limit alcohol. .

Colorectal cancer is a malignant tumor that comes from the heart or the colon or rectum. The incidence of disease ranks third and is the second leading cause of cancer death in many countries around the world. The disease is more common in developed countries than in developing countries.

The disease has tended to increase strongly in our country in recent years. In Vietnam, colorectal cancer ranks fourth among the 10 most common cancers in men with an annual incidence of about 8,000, and is expected to increase to more than 13,000 by 2020.

Colorectal cancer tends to increase strongly in our country in recent years.

Colorectal cancer also ranks second among 10 common cancers in women, with more than 6,000 cases a year, and is expected to increase to more than 11,000 by 2020.

Most manifestations of the disease are not specific, so patients often do not think about cancer. Compared with other gastrointestinal cancers, colorectal cancer has a better prognosis. The rate of recovery after 5 years is 40-60%. It is one of the types of cancer that can be cured if detected early.

Early screening and detection measures include: finding fecal occult blood, screening the entire colon, manual rectal examination.

Doctors K Hospital (Hanoi) offers 6 tips to prevent colorectal cancer:

1. Enhance physical activity.
2. Limit eating fat, animal meat;reduce kcal, fat from 40% to 20-25%.
3. Increase the intake of fiber and fresh fruits daily.
4. Limit salt, fermented, dried fish, soy sauce, bacon.
5. Avoid mutagenic infections in foods such as pesticides, herbicides, and weight gain drugs.
6. Limit abuse of alcohol, beer and other fermentation substances.