After colonoscopy, patients with confirmed adenomatous polyposis should not only actively treat themselves, but should also bring their families to the hospital for investigation.
Deng Gaoli, chief physician of the Department of Anorectal Surgery, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, said that adenomatous polyposis is a hereditary tumor. If someone in the family gets this disease, it will be passed on to the next generation. 3 people will eventually develop into intestinal cancer. Director Deng said that the disease is characterized by the appearance of colon polyps around the age of 18; canceration occurs around the age of 40, and if patients are found and actively treated before cancer, most patients can get radical treatment. In the anorectal department of Zhejiang People’s Hospital, colonoscopy has been carried out for more than 10 years. It has been found that 13 families have acquired this disease and successfully stopped the cancer progression in 23 patients. Therefore, if other family members are diagnosed with adenomatous polyposis, colonoscopy should be performed as soon as possible, and changes in the condition should be monitored for a long time.
In addition, intestinal familial adenomas are easily confused with acne. The hospital had received such a patient: a woman in her 50s who developed mucous bloody stool 7 years ago, but did not hurt or itch, mistakenly thought hemorrhoids, no treatment. The number of blood in the stool increased in recent times. Colonoscopy revealed that the large intestine was covered with polyps of different sizes, and six tumors were found in the rectum, sigmoid colon, descending colon, transverse colon and ascending colon. The tumors in the descending colon and ascending colon were adults. Fist size.
At present, the patient has been discharged from the hospital after treatment, but is in contact with the brothers and sisters to the hospital for examination, to avoid the late stage of the disease. Therefore, in addition to the need to adjust the diet structure, such as abdominal discomfort, unexplained abdominal pain, increased frequency of stools, blood in the stool should go to the hospital as soon as possible, so as not to delay the disease.