Ryan Reynolds is raising awareness about colon cancer screenings by sharing details into his own experience with the procedure.
said there is "no sure way to prevent colorectal cancer," but there are things that people can do to help lower their risk. At the top of the list is getting screened for colorectal cancer, just like Reynolds.
"You are interrupting the natural history of a disease of something a process, that could have ended up developing into cancer and causing all sorts of problems," LaPook said. "Instead, you're not only diagnosing the polyp, you're taking it out. Nobody would know that they had this, but he [Reynolds] reached the age of screening, 45, he got a routine screening, and there you go. And that's why people need to do this.
Through regular screening, polyps can be found and removed before they turn into cancer, the American Cancer Society said.
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