COLONOSCOPY - the full bus trip to the end of the colon is probably the ONLY way to detect problems accurately!
"Some way"?
There is already a fantastic way to detect colon cancer: Colonoscopy.
Colonoscopy can detect pre-cancerous polyps and remove them years before they ever turn into cancer.
So, get your butt (pun intended) over to your surgeon's office and make an appointment for one.
This disease just killed the CEO of McDonald's and he was only 44 years old.
The Gastroenterologist removed 5 relatively small polyps, nascent colon cancers.
This is what they're talking about trying to pick up. Unless the polyps are bleeding, the office test is no help.
I've had 'em before, and know I need the full bore (!) test about every three to five years.
...but my days of feeling like Kermit the Frog are over. The next soul who comes near me wearing a rubber glove saying the words "bend over" gets both their arms broken!
It's my opinion that "colorectal" and "blasts" should never be used in the same sentence.
While I share this heartfelt sentiment... What in the name of phony Chiropractic Colonics has this got to do with the danged story???
I do a bit of colorectal blasting myself.....
Another recent thread: Former McDonald's head Bell dies
I did not see any mention of diverticulitis (SP)> I had the procedure done. The first procedure was call a "Flex Sig" where they only go to the first bend in the colon and the second one was the full deal. They had given me some sort of sedative. I could fell the camera inching its way through the various curves that it had to travel. The most embarrassing thing was the amount of gas that I passed in the recovery room. But then again that is normal for a guy, what can I say.