Colon cancer risk factors & screening tools | Stanford

Dr. Lidia Schapira explains how colon cancer progresses, what risk factors might make someone more likely to experience this kind of irregular growth earlier in life, and how we can protect ourselves against colon cancer through the regular use of screening tools like the colonoscopy. Since colorectal cancer led to over 50,000 deaths in the United States alone in 2021, it is important to know the basics of this cancer and how to screen for it.

0:00 Introduction
0:48 How colon cancer develops and progresses
3:31 Screening for colorectal cancer: colonoscopy, risk factors, and other methods

Dr. Schapira is a medical oncologist and a professor of medicine at Stanford University.

The information in this video was accurate as of the upload date, 1/5/2022. For information purposes only. Consult your local medical authority or your healthcare practitioner for advice.

This video is a production of the Stanford Center for Health Education team, in collaboration with Stanford Medicine, Stanford Center for Professional Development, and Stanford Medicine Education Technology Team.

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