Appendix Cancer Prevention and Screening Appendix Cancer
Screening Cancer screening exams are important medical tests
done when you’re at risk but don’t have symptoms. They help find
cancer at its earliest stage, when the chances for successful
treatment are highest. Unfortunately, no standardized screening
tests have been shown to improve appendix cancer outcomes.
However, here at MD Anderson, we’re working to develop screening
tests for those at risk. Appendix Cancer Risk Factors Anything
that increases your chance of getting appendix cancer is a risk
factor. Not everyone with risk factors gets appendix cancer.
Risk factors include: - Smoking tobacco: Read more about MD
Anderson’s smoking cessation clinical trials - Gender: Women are
likely to develop carcinoid tumors - Family history of appendix
cancer - Certain health conditions, such as atrophic gastritis,
pernicious anemia or Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, which affect
the stomach’s ability to make acid - Having a family history of
multiple endocrine neopl