Colorectal cancer

Colon cancer detected at an early stage is cured in 9 out of 10 cases. © iStock / peterschreiber.media

By: Caroline Paré Follow

2 min

Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer, is one of the cancers that causes the most deaths, after lung and liver cancer.

Detected at an early stage, it is cured in 9 out of 10 cases. It affects almost as much women as men.

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What are the risk factors for this cancer?

How is the screening carried out?

What are the treatments ?

  • Pr Michel Ducreux,

    Head of the digestive oncology department, at the 

    Gustave-Roussy center

    , in Villejuif in the Paris region.

  • Prof. Roger Sombié,

    gastroenterologist and hepatologist at

    Yalgado Ouédraogo Hospital

    in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

  • Colette Casimir

    , patient expert, director of

    Mon Réseau® Cancer Colorectal

    .

    She was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, which came back twice.

At the end of the program, we address the question of the role of doctors and in particular child psychiatrists in the fight against child abuse.

Several child psychiatrists are now sentenced by the Order of Physicians in connection with reports to the judicial authorities of children suspected of being physically, psychologically or sexually abused.

We are talking about it with

Dr Françoise Fericelli

, child psychiatrist member of

UFMLS, the union of the French union for free medicine

.

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