Blood test shows 83% accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer, study finds
Blood test shows 83% accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer, study finds
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Blood test shows 83% accuracy for detecting colorectal cancer, study finds
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I hope by the time of my next colonoscopy (9 years), they'll have figured this out to the point that it really works, because colonoscopy prep is the worst.
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My doctor just had me shit in a box.
Honestly, I think I'd rather do a colonoscopy next time if the blood test isn't a normal thing by then. Shitting into a box, then taping it up and delivering it to UPS felt like a war crime.
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Same. And worrying if it's done a good enough job. The colonoscopy the time before my last one I had PEG solution and the magnesium citrate. Then I thought I was going to die. My blood pressure got really low and I couldn't function for a couple days. The doctor had me on a re-check in 5 years so the colonoscopy I had last year they only had me do PEG along with the liquid diet and that was so much better. Still not pleasant but I didn't get so weak and faint. I think there was a shortage of Mg citrate. If you can just do the PEG solution that might help and be enough. I don't go back for 9 years and hopefully the blood test will be enough.
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If I read correctly this has the same detection rate as the shit test. I'm in my 50's and asked my doctor about taking the shit test. She said that she was reluctant to have me do it because the high rate of false positives caused unnecessary stress and trauma in many people. I trust her, so I didn't press for it.
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I read the title as "collateral cancer"
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I rather apply limitations on what I eat so I won't need blood tests to know whether I am healthy or not :|
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