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TELEMEDICINE<br />
COLON CANCER SCREENINGS<br />
now possible from home<br />
ENGLISH<br />
5% of people in Germany develop colon cancer – but in most cases this initially<br />
occurs without symptoms. Unfortunately, too few undertake medically recommended<br />
preventive care. That’s why since March the medical platform easytest has been<br />
offering a preventive test kit to use at home.<br />
Easytest home tests bring the same standard<br />
digitally that general practitioners and gastroenterologists<br />
use for preventive examinations.<br />
Testing takes place at home using<br />
certified sampling materials. The process is<br />
now even easier for patients, as the test can<br />
be ordered directly at home. With the help of<br />
understandable instructions, the patient takes<br />
the sample and sends it back to the partner<br />
laboratory in a prepaid return envelope. The<br />
testing method and laboratory analysis are<br />
identical to the tests carried out by doctors.<br />
Only accredited laboratories with many years<br />
of experience are accepted as partners.<br />
With the vision of solving the problem of<br />
medical undersupply in everyday health, Nico<br />
Hribernik and Dr. Manuel Nothelfer founded<br />
the Wellster Healthtech Group (formerly<br />
Direct Health Service) in Munich in 2018. Since<br />
then, Wellster Healthtech has developed into<br />
a portfolio company that, in addition to Spring<br />
for men‘s health, also operates easy (mental<br />
health) and easytest (medical home tests) as<br />
portals for holistic digital health solutions.<br />
Since the launch of the first platform in mid-<br />
2019, more than 1,000,000 online consultation<br />
hours and more than 100,000 treatments have<br />
been completed in less than 2 years.<br />
Dr. Sven Jungmann, member of the medical<br />
advisory board of Wellster and easytest, said:<br />
“Many people have difficulties with preventive<br />
examinations, often because they feel in top<br />
shape and have no symptoms. Nonetheless,<br />
based on years of medical research, it is recommended<br />
to take this screening test, especially<br />
if you are at risk or over 50 years old. It<br />
is important that people have easy access to<br />
life-saving preventive care.”<br />
Foto: appledesign_stock.adobe.com<br />
It is recommended that everyone over 50 years<br />
of age should repeat the test annually – easytest<br />
even offers a prevention subscription so<br />
that you never forget an examination. (ts,mb)<br />
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