Evidence Based Counseling for GI Malignancy Risk Reduction

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Gastrointestinal cancer accounts for nearly 20 percent of cancer deaths. Overwhelmingly, evidence shows that many of these malignancies are preventable. Current stragies to reduce mortality from cancer include both screening and prevention. In this lecture, risk factors and prevention stragies focusing on modifying environmental and lifestyle risk factors whcih promote GI malignancies are discussed. Chemoprevention of the GI malignancy is also discussed. This lecture was presented at the 2012 annual American Assocation for Primary Care Endoscopy CME conference in San Francisco by Mark Y. Liu, DO, FAAFP.

tags: aapce American Association for Primary Care Endoscopy

related terms: DO, FAAFP, colon cancer prevention

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