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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]
Color guard only detects blood in the sample. Precancerous polyps don’t bleed. Slow growing, relatively large, cancerous tumors sometimes bleed. The colonoscopy removes the polyps, some pre-cancerous, before blood is present in a sample and before it can become cancerous. 
I do not understand how Colorguard gives any peace of mind (unless you only want to know when you have a big ole bleeding tumor). [/quote]

It's called  Cologuard, not colorguard. Color guard is a flag ceremony.

Secondly it has nothing to do with blood at all. It picks  up cancerous DNA, not blood. What it doesn't do is detect precancerous polyps,  which can  turn into cancer. It's repeatee every 3 to 5 years,  unlike a colonoscopy, which is every 10.

Yes, most insurances pay  for a colonoscopy if Cologuard finds something.

You just made a lot of cr@p up  here,  pardon the pun.

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Yep.   I just received my cologuard and my doctor told me if I pooped in the box I'd get a test in 3 years and if I did the colonoscopy it would be 10. I'm only 45 and have no risk. I think I'm going to poop in the box.
Did recommend getting colonoscopy when I turn 50 however just to be safe

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I had no symptoms, no family history and no cancer marker in blood tests and still colon cancer found at my first screening colonoscopy. I thank god I didn’t fall for the cologuard. But most people aren’t so unlucky. [/quote]

Why do you think Cololguard wouldn't have picked it up? You didn't use it, so why do you think that? Cologuard does pick up cancer  DNA.  [/quote]

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