{"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\/pt\/news\/joe-tavares\/","title":{"rendered":"Rastreio de rotina detecta precocemente o cancro do c\u00f3lon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ao seguir este conselho, Joe evitou as complica\u00e7\u00f5es de uma doen\u00e7a avan\u00e7ada. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/cancer-care\/colon-cancer\/\">cancro do c\u00f3lon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"N\u00e3o brinque com a sua sa\u00fade\", disse ele. \"Mesmo que se esteja a sentir bem, n\u00e3o se sabe. Estas janelas de teste s\u00e3o criadas por uma raz\u00e3o.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O tema da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/screen-me\/\">rastreio do cancro do c\u00f3lon<\/a> surgiu durante a primeira visita de Joe a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/william-blair-do\/\">Dr. William Blair<\/a>um m\u00e9dico de fam\u00edlia de Southcoast. Durante um check-up anual. O Dr. Blair reparou que o seu novo paciente faria 50 anos no seu pr\u00f3ximo anivers\u00e1rio e ainda n\u00e3o tinha sido submetido \u00e0 sua primeira <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/the-importance-of-colorectal-cancer-screenings\/\">colonoscopia<\/a>. Recentemente, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/\">A Sociedade Americana do Cancro<\/a> baixou a idade recomendada para o rastreio inicial de 50 para 45 anos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Dra. Blair encaminhou o Joe para <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/james-watson-md\/#\/appointment-chooser\/providerId\/2088\/patientTypeId\">Dr. James Watson<\/a>Southcoast Medical Diretor of Gastroenterology, que efectuou o teste em Fall River. Num procedimento indolor, o Dr. Watson descobriu e removeu p\u00f3lipos que se revelaram cancerosos. Um exame de acompanhamento um m\u00eas mais tarde confirmou que todo o cancro tinha sido removido.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Os m\u00e9dicos afirmam que o cancro do c\u00f3lon em estado avan\u00e7ado est\u00e1 a aumentar porque os doentes adiaram os cuidados de sa\u00fade de rotina durante a pandemia. Os doentes que adiam as colonoscopias arriscam-se a permitir que o cancro avance ao ponto de exigir cirurgia e outros tratamentos agressivos. \"A parte assustadora \u00e9 que o cancro do c\u00f3lon n\u00e3o tem sintomas\". Joe estremece ao pensar at\u00e9 que ponto o seu cancro poderia ter avan\u00e7ado se a Dra. Blair tivesse adotado uma abordagem mais relaxada no seu primeiro rastreio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Um ano mais tarde, Joe e a sua mulher Lenore esperam poder continuar a viajar - um passatempo de que gostam imenso. Juntos, viajaram pelo Sudeste Asi\u00e1tico e por \u00c1frica, onde Joe nasceu no sudeste do pa\u00eds, Mo\u00e7ambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ele insta toda a gente a seguir o conselho do seu m\u00e9dico e a fazer o teste. Atualmente, o agendamento antecipado \u00e9 importante, uma vez que o volume aumentou com as diretrizes actualizadas e os doentes que regressam para fazer rastreios ap\u00f3s a COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"O lema da hist\u00f3ria \u00e9: n\u00e3o brinques com o rastreio\", disse. \"A minha hist\u00f3ria podia ter acabado muito pior.\"<\/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=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Routine Screening Caught Colon Cancer Early - 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