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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can also do Cologuard if you are low risk! Much simpler, and the overall outcomes (prevention of death from colon cancer) is the same.[/quote]

Please work to this. It only tells you if you have cancer and isn’t that accurate. I’m 49 and just did my first. I had a polyp removed. Polyps can truck into cancer. Cologuard will just let them grow. Op can you ask around to friends? I was supper anxious about mine and a lot of my friends offered to drive me. Turned out that many of them had already done it because of family history or some other issue. FWIW, you are supposed to go at 45 now.  [/quote]

I had a clean cologuard but a new Dr told me to get the colonoscopy anyways.  I did in fact have a polyp that was removed.  I will go back in 5 years.  I will never did a cologuard again.[/quote]

My doctor said cologuard is for people who can’t or won’t get a colonoscopy. [/quote]

Cologuard is designed to catch cancer and large precancerous polyps.

Only 5% of polyps ever turn into cancer.

Colorectal cancers only acct for about 8% of new cancers yearly.

So if you are low risk with no family history, pooing in the box is a legit diagnostic tool. [/quote]

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