Colon cancer screening in risk groups of the University Polyclinic "Omar Ranedo Pubillones” of Guantánamo

A retrospective study was carried out in the polyclinic “Omar Ranedo Pubillones” in the period between January and December 2016, with the objective of knowing the repercussion of colon cancer through the occult blood fecal occult (Sumasohf) as a screening method in Primary health care. The universe consisted of 10 216 patients, who constituted 50 % of the adults over 50 years of age in the area, 1 795 were searched, with prior informed consent to participate in the study and thus to act in a preventive way in cases that the blind blood research which was positive. A data collection sheet (age, sex, personal and/or familial pathological history, research positivity, as well as patients deceased by colon cancer) was prepared. The results were represented in numbers and by hundreds, using tables. Patients aged 70 years and older predominated, belonging to the female sex, the survey was positive in 146 cases and there were a total of 27 deceased, many of them with positive occult blood.