Recommendations for the general population is that colorectal cancer screening should begin at age 50 at the latest, as in the meantime on European scientific forums increasingly being discussed to reduce the age to 45 years.
Colonoscopy remains the most exact diagnostic examination, allowing not only the malignancy diagnosis, but also the colon polyps detection and removal. Thus, colonoscopy can provide early diagnosis and malignant disease development prevention as well as save human life.
Diagnostic colonoscopy is an extremely safe procedure. Studies еvaluate the complications overall risk as low and around 1.6%. In comparison, the lifetime risk of colorectal cancer development is about 4-5%. The risk of bleeding or perforation is estimated to be 1-2 per 10,000 examinations. It is necessary to take special solutions to clean the colon and cessation of feeding before the examination. The patient must not take any liquids for 4-6 hours before the colonoscopy, when it is performed under anesthesia.
Gastroscopy is an examination that allows evaluation of the upper gastrointestinal tract.
The procedure, also called videoesophagogastroduodenoscopy, is the general method for direct visualization of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (the initial part of the small intestine). By this assessment, the presence of various disease processes is possible to be determined or excepted.
Everybody talks about prevention, Hygia NV performs it at individual and package prices.
The price of Gastroduodenoscopy and Colonoscopy is 508 euro.
