People eat grains and cereals, and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are quite common, such as ulcers, inflammation, polyps, and even malignant tumors. Among the common malignant tumors among local residents, excluding the gender factor, lung cancer, colorectal cancer and stomach cancer rank among the top three, with colorectal cancer (including colon and rectal cancer) having the most significant growth rate, rising from the sixth place in the early 1970s to the second place. Experts suggest that at a certain age, medical checkups are recommended to check gastroscopy and colonoscopy, preferably together, and in addition to lung CT scan to exclude lung cancer, you can screen the three most common tumors once. Gastrointestinal tumors are very effective as long as they are detected early and treated early to nip the problem in the bud. For example, it takes about 10 years to develop from colorectal polyp to colorectal cancer, people have more than ample time to block the cancer of polyps, why must we delay until the cancerous tumor is very large and symptomatic and then go for treatment.” Three months earlier detection, thirty years more life”. However, although many people talk about cancer. However, the compliance to the doctor’s suggestion of gastroscopy is very low. Gastroscopy is always associated with words such as “pain” and “horror”, and people’s acceptance of gastroscopy and colonoscopy is less than 30%. As a last resort, the first reaction to a colonoscopy is still to refuse. Unbeknownst to us, this provides space for potential stomach and colon cancers to grow rapidly. In Europe and the United States, gastroscopy and colonoscopy are routine medical checkups for people over the age of 50, and they are basically painless. So how does painless gastroscopy achieve painlessness? It turns out that the anesthesiologist is present during the entire procedure, and the pain is achieved through intravenous general anesthesia. Before the examination, the anesthesiologist injects a short-acting, mild, micro-intravenous anesthetic to put the examinee to sleep. During the examination, the examinee is asleep and the doctor can perform the endoscopy smoothly, comprehensively and carefully without nausea, regurgitation or pain. After the examination is completed, the anesthetic medication is stopped and the examinee is awakened in about 5 minutes and can leave the hospital after 15-30 minutes of observation. To put it bluntly, the examination is done while the person is sleeping! The first thing many examiners say when they wake up after a painless exam is: “Did I do it? I didn’t feel anything!”
Interestingly, many people react to the end of the examination with a cheerful and sweet dream. At present, there are many public and private medical checkup centers, and there are many luxury medical checkup packages that can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and also the “high” items such as cancer genetic testing and PET are not moving. It is recommended that painless gastroscopy, chest CT scan and some blood tests can cover most of the common tumor screening, and targeted physical examinations can be done for different genders and ages (e.g. gynecological examination for women, prostate examination for men, etc.), so that the most scientific and complete tumor screening can be done at affordable prices. Specially remind the following people need to do gastroscopy as soon as possible: 1. No matter men or women, they should have a gastroscopy. If there are positive findings (ulcers, polyps, etc.), they should be reviewed regularly after treatment. 2.People with family history of esophageal cancer, stomach cancer and intestinal cancer can advance the age of initial examination to 40 or even 35 years old. 3.People who have bad habits: smoking, drinking, irregular diet or overeating or big fish and meat, like to eat pickled food and barbecue, work under high pressure and often stay up late. 4, people with digestive discomfort, such as stomach discomfort, which can be manifested as epigastric pain, lower abdominal pain, acid reflux, belching, fullness, etc.; intestinal discomfort, which can be manifested as lower abdominal pain, changes in stool habits and traits, such as one bowel movement per day to multiple bowel movements, or constipation, thin stool, blood in stool, snotty mucus blood stool, etc. 5. If CEA, CA199 and other GI tumor markers are found to be elevated during normal physical examination, gastroenteroscopy should be done as soon as possible for further investigation.