{"id":18039,"date":"2023-02-28T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/joe-tavares\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:20:22","slug":"joe-tavares","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/joe-tavares\/","title":{"rendered":"El cribado sistem\u00e1tico detecta precozmente el c\u00e1ncer de colon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siguiendo ese consejo, Joe evit\u00f3 las complicaciones de una enfermedad avanzada. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/cancer-care\/colon-cancer\/\">c\u00e1ncer de colon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"No juegues con tu salud\", dijo. \"Aunque te encuentres bien, no lo sabes. Estas ventanas de pruebas se establecen por una raz\u00f3n\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El tema de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/screen-me\/\">cribado del c\u00e1ncer de colon<\/a> surgi\u00f3 durante la primera visita de Joe a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/william-blair-do\/\">Dr. William Blair<\/a>un m\u00e9dico de familia de Southcoast. Durante una revisi\u00f3n anual. El Dr. Blair se dio cuenta de que su nuevo paciente cumplir\u00eda 50 a\u00f1os en su pr\u00f3ximo cumplea\u00f1os y a\u00fan no se hab\u00eda sometido a su primera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/the-importance-of-colorectal-cancer-screenings\/\">colonoscopia<\/a>. Hace poco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/\">La Sociedad Americana contra el C\u00e1ncer<\/a> redujo la edad recomendada para el cribado inicial de 50 a 45 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Blair remiti\u00f3 a Joe a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/james-watson-md\/#\/appointment-chooser\/providerId\/2088\/patientTypeId\">Dr. James Watson<\/a>, Director M\u00e9dico de Gastroenterolog\u00eda de Southcoast, que realiz\u00f3 la prueba en Fall River. En un procedimiento indoloro, el Dr. Watson descubri\u00f3 y extirp\u00f3 unos p\u00f3lipos que resultaron ser cancerosos. Un examen de seguimiento un mes despu\u00e9s confirm\u00f3 que se hab\u00eda extirpado todo el c\u00e1ncer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los m\u00e9dicos afirman que el c\u00e1ncer de colon avanzado est\u00e1 aumentando porque los pacientes retrasaron la atenci\u00f3n sanitaria rutinaria durante la pandemia. Los pacientes que retrasan las colonoscopias corren el riesgo de permitir que el c\u00e1ncer avance hasta el punto de requerir cirug\u00eda y otros tratamientos agresivos. \"Lo m\u00e1s aterrador es que el c\u00e1ncer de colon no presenta s\u00edntomas\". Joe se estremece al pensar cu\u00e1nto podr\u00eda haber avanzado su c\u00e1ncer si el Dr. Blair hubiera adoptado un enfoque m\u00e1s relajado en su primera revisi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Un a\u00f1o despu\u00e9s, Joe y su esposa Lenore, esperan poder seguir viajando, un pasatiempo del que disfrutan enormemente. Juntos han viajado por el sudeste asi\u00e1tico y \u00c1frica, donde Joe naci\u00f3 en el pa\u00eds del sudeste, Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insta a todo el mundo a que siga el consejo de su m\u00e9dico y se haga las pruebas. En la actualidad, es importante programar las pruebas con antelaci\u00f3n, ya que el volumen ha aumentado con la actualizaci\u00f3n de las directrices y los pacientes que regresan para someterse a las pruebas despu\u00e9s de COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"El lema de la historia es: no juegues con la proyecci\u00f3n\", dijo. \"Mi historia podr\u00eda haber acabado mucho peor\".<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6637,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-18039","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Routine Screening Caught Colon Cancer Early - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Joe Tavares, of New Bedford, was 49 years old when his primary care physician urged him to undergo his first colonoscopy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/joe-tavares\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Routine Screening Caught Colon Cancer Early - 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