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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone just posted on here how a friend or neighbor just died of colon cancer and he said he had done the poop in a box thing and it missed his cancer.  Poop in a box won't catch precancerous polyps as I understand it.  [/quote]

Yes--please get the colonoscopy. Mine discovered a very small tumor that was causing no symptoms that never would have been picked up by a stool test. [b]Colon cancer is the most preventable cancer there is.[/b] [/quote]

Yet, so many die from it every day[/quote]

This x 1,000.

ColoGuard has low sensitivity for detecting colorectal cancer (70%-75% using colonoscopy as the criterion standard). Sensitivity is also low for precursor lesions, approximately 20% to 25% for advanced adenomas and less than 5% for advanced sessile serrated polyps.  [url]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6771036/[/url]

I have [u]no[/u] colon cancer in my family and no known risk factors but was diagnosed (via colonoscopy) at age 44.  Thank God it was caught at stage III, which is not early but I'm lucky enough to still be here 7 years later.[/quote]

How?  Until recently, the recommendation was 50. Now it's 45. I would assume there had to have been some circumstances that led you to have a colonoscopy at 44[/quote]

I was having abdominal pain, so the doctor suggested a colonoscopy. If screening colonoscopies had been recommended (and covered by insurance) at age 40, perhaps the offending polyp could have been removed before it turned cancerous.
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