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Men Are More Likely To Develop Colorectal Cancer

According to a new study conducted in Poland, men are more likely to develop colorectal cancer than women.

Dr. Jaroslaw Regula and colleagues at the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center in Warsaw, examined nearly 50,000 adults, men and women aged 40 to 66, and suggested that men are more vulnerable to colorectal cancer.

"Although it is generally accepted that the lifetime risk of colorectal cancer is similar among men and women, the prevalence of advanced [cancers] that are detected in colonoscopy screening has been found to be higher among men than among women," revealed Dr. Jaroslaw Regula, the lead researchers.

Researchers who used colonoscopy on all participants at the study discovered that polyps usually associated to colon cancer are more common in males than in females. Polyps are tissues that grow inside the large intestine and eventually form cancerous tumors.

Colonoscopy is a medical procedure that allows doctors to look inside the large intestine and detect very small polyps. The screening test is required for adults who pass the age of 50 and the procedure is usually repeated every 10 years.

The current study says it would be advisable to start colonoscopy on men earlier and repeat the screening test more often so that the increasing number of colorectal cancer cases would at least stagnate.