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Anonymous wrote:Please get your colonoscopies! 45 with no family history, younger if you you have a history.

James got his. Feels like you are blaming him.

I wasn't blaming him. We (society) need to be aware, we need to be proactive. We need to stop making regular screenings mountains to be fretted over and avoided. Everyone has a body and that body needs care, which includes immunizations (HPV), colonoscopies, mammograms and pap smears for women, and prostate checks for males. These shouldn't be taboo, scary things.

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Anonymous wrote:Please get your colonoscopies! 45 with no family history, younger if you you have a history.

James got his. Feels like you are blaming him.

I don’t believe he got them as he should have:

- he was unaware that the screening age had dropped from 50 to 45

- he had changes in his bowel habits and attributed it to caffeine intake rather than speaking to a physician

What?

Who cares if he knew the screening age if he still got one at what turned out to be the recommended screening age?

People have changes in bowel habits for myriad reasons. I hope you don’t suggest that one go running to the doctor or for a colonoscopy as the first step every time? In addition to being impractical on a personal level, it’s impractical on a system level.

He was diagnosed at 46. He did not get screened at 45 and had publicly said he didn’t know screening was recommended at 45. I am suggesting people get tested when recommended and discuss changes in your status with your physician.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why colon cancer rates are rising among young people? So scary.

Anonymous wrote:Super sad. I'm 44 and not gen x but grew up when he was younger in dawson's creek. Didn't really watch his show either. But sad when someone dies so young with most of DCUM calling 40's "OLD". It's really not. Live life and get your colonoscopies. I have IBS since I was 30. Had my first colonoscopy 7 yrs ago. It was easier than I thought it would be the only scary part for me was being put under for it.

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Anonymous wrote:This is typically a beatable cancer. (I’m a colon cancer survivor).
Get your colonoscopy. Follow your med team’s recommendations of gold standard treatment.

He chose to treat the cancer “holistically” and tried “a bunch of different things”.
It’s 100% his choice and decision. But others should not take a stage 3 colorectal cancer diagnosis as a death sentence. Statistically it’s a beatable cancer dx.

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Anonymous wrote:I know 4 people in their 30s/40s who have died of colon cancer. They should drop the screening age to 30.

I'm not actuary, but I bet that would result in a material increase in everyone's health insurance premiums.

Wouldn’t it be lower because it’s cheaper to treat cancer early?

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Anonymous wrote:This is typically a beatable cancer. (I’m a colon cancer survivor).
Get your colonoscopy. Follow your med team’s recommendations of gold standard treatment.

* Unless you are diagnosed in your thirties or early 40s
* Unless your doctors write off your symptoms as acid reflux or IBS
* Unless the cancer has metastasized to other organs like the liver and the lungs
* Unless you have a gene mutation that makes your tumor less likely to respond to chemotherapy
* Unless your cancer has metastasized and is no longer resectable

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Anonymous wrote:I know 4 people in their 30s/40s who have died of colon cancer. They should drop the screening age to 30.

I'm not actuary, but I bet that would result in a material increase in everyone's health insurance premiums.

Anonymous wrote:I know 4 people in their 30s/40s who have died of colon cancer. They should drop the screening age to 30.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know why colon cancer rates are rising among young people? So scary.