[Polybius]

This disease killed my Uncle back in 1986. Time we find some way of detecting this killer.

"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.

[television is just wrong]

My grandmother suffered for decades with hemmroids. Would not go to the doctor. She was an RN. Treated herself weekly with colonics.

She died of colon cancer in 1980. 74 years old. She should have known better. We all need more fiber in our diets, fresh fruits and vegetables.

Eat a balanced diet, limiting too much red meat. Eat yogurt with the natural cultures in it, and go in for that test if you have a family history earlier than 50.

[petro45acp]

Hubble telescope up the bum.....sounds pretty advanced. Where are the diagnostic beds, scans that detect EVERYTHING, right down to blood gas and toxicology? Seems to me that MRI has advanced pretty far, why not, with the computing and sensor advances made in the last 20 years, have a device that CAN detect everything.

< tinfoil beanie> It almost seems that the medical machine is more interested in treatment than in cure < /tinfiol beanie off>

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[JusticeTalion]

I meant "some way" other than the invasive colonoscopy (It takes 1 to 2 hours, requires sedatives, pain medication and, in rare cases, can cause bleeding and tearing of the intestines). Doesn't make me want to run right out for one. Not to mention they are only recommended every 10 years. "Some way" less intense, more often and more accurate than current techniques.

[snopercod]

There is already a fantastic way to detect colon cancer: Colonoscopy.

My insurance won't pay the $3,000 cost of a screening colonosopy unless I have a positive Hemoccult test...by which time I would be already dead.