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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Well my neighbor who died of colon cancer since it wasn’t caught early told me don’t $hit in the box. Do the real thing. I was honestly terrified of it as a SA survivor, but I couldn’t even tell that I’d been violated there. The prep wasn’t fun but I made it through and they did find and remove a polyp. I know too many people in their early 40s/late 30s who have colon cancer to skip it. It’s too important and totally curable if caught early. I would give anyone I knew a ride home from it. I was there maybe 2 hours total and DH dropped me off and picked me up. Nbd. [/quote]

And were you aware of your neighbor's health history and risk factors and if she stayed on schedule?

You do the cologuard every three years and colon cancer is extremely slow growing, hence the 10 year rec for people with low cancer risk and no previous polyps. The cologuard is the "real thing."

Again, if you have risk factors or  family history, you absolutely should get the colonoscopy, but for many many many people, it is unnecessary.[/quote]

Well it missed my friend’s colon cancer that killed Jim so yeah I’m not trusting it. Not for something that is fairly easy to do and free. [/quote]

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