The Advantages And The Disadvantages Of Colonoscopy

By Joshua Long


Colonoscopy is the process of doing an endoscopic examination in a large bowel or small bowel with the use of the CCD camera or fiber optic camera being inserted into the flexible tube that is passed into the anus. The process provides visual diagnosis and will grant the opportunity of biopsy or the removal of the suspected lesions of colorectal cancer. The polyps are also removed by the process and will then be studied if these can be precancerous or not.

Colonoscopies are considered to be one of the common procedures in which people often hear, but few of them only have experienced it. Most people generally think that this process may only be applied for older or middle aged people. However, a colonoscopy Conway AR is so much useful in order to determine the risks of colon cancer compared to only using the ordinary checkup.

The colonoscopy advantages. Preventing and detecting a colon cancer is the most common benefit a person can get from it. Some medical conditions may also be detected such as ulcers and also inflammatory bowel diseases. There are a lot of other procedures that are suggested, but still, colonoscopy is said to be the best among all the procedures. Through this, the doctors can be able to check the areas potential problems.

Some people may be required to undergo the said process but would consider it as uncomfortable and for this reason, performing sedation would be the solution. By sedation, the doctor has the freedom of operating the camera and not be bothered if the patient is uncomfortable. Additionally, some modern technologies have now been used as camera and surgical tool. This means can be used also for the purpose of taking samples of the tissues. A biopsy may also be performed.

The disadvantages of colonoscopy. The major drawbacks include being invasive. It means that a doctor may be allowed on going to the sensitive parts so diagnosis is provided. Generally, the doctors would just prefer to just go to a body to perform a surgery or to fix an issue that is diagnosed already.

However, the procedure do catches some early signs for certain cancers, but there may be some other similar procedures which can also provide other tests and are less risky compared to this. One of these are the virtual colonoscopies. This is a colon CT scan used in detecting anomalies. In this procedure, the insertion of camera and sedation is not required, cannot perform biopsies or collecting tissue samples, making it safer.

Sedation may be considered as risky since all people may not have the same reaction for use of some chemicals. So these chemicals may lead to complications for some patients. Even death may also become a result due to sedation.

Infections and excessive bleeding are other disadvantage of this and these may possibly happen because of performing biopsies and getting tissue samples. Though the procedure is not being performed frequently, this is still dangerous to the elderly people. Strict diet regiment might be required prior to this process which stresses the patient.

As a conclusion, to take preventive measures would be important to help catch the potential problems. Despite of all the drawbacks, a colonoscopy may still be helpful. Virtual colonoscopies are recommended as well which also provide the same results.




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