Posted on 06/22/2021 1:50:24 PM PDT by blam
Might have been a sigmoidoscopy and not a sedated colonoscopy. Technology has gotten way better.
The deflection into speculations about sexuality or race by individuals on this thread masked the point of the article: PREVENTION. This disease attacks all types of people. The black man this article led off with, Chadwick Boseman, was a Christian, married to a woman, who died at 43. The white attorney married to Katie Couric also died at age 43 of colon cancer.
This short video gives a good explanation of what takes place during a colonoscopy, and how important it is to find any polyps before they grow into the intestinal wall and need to be removed surgically instead of during a quick outpatient procedure:
My best friend got this disease in her late 50s. I miss going through old age without her sense of humor. No one else "knew me when." I wish she had gotten a colonoscopy before it attacked not only her colon, but metastasized to her lungs.
If you are overdue for a colonoscopy, do your loved ones a favor and schedule the procedure today.
Thank you for that. Colon cancer doesn’t care who you are or what you do. Yes, risky sexual behavior can increase your odds, but most cases are genetic or caused by what foods we eat (or don’t eat). Lots of processed foods are bad for the body. Period.
It's coming from poor diet & societal breakdown - processed junk foods. People don't sit around the dinner table at 5:30 anymore and have a balanced diet. Then having Mom make oatmeal or cream of wheat or Cherios in the morning. They eat sugar and skittles and candy and junk food like drive in stuff and Taco Bell.
I’ve done it and recommend having it done. Also note that the age dropped from 50 down to 45 this may.
I tried earlier this week to see when it had been raised to 50 some years back (I think in the Obama administration, also raised the age for screening women for breast cancer, cervical cancer etc).
Nice post on a tough subject - so sorry about your friend. Cancer does not discriminate - we’ve lost a couple family members recently to cancer & miss them greatly.
Particularly resent being accused of disparaging the value of colonoscopies. They have indeed been life saving. Anyone over forty with or without symptoms but with a family history of colon cancer should have a colonoscopy. Colonoscopy screenings should begin routinely at age 50. The data suggests that anyone who has had a colonoscopy is 90% less likely to die of metastatic colon cancer than those who have never had a colonoscopy.
But that was not your point regardless of your reaction to your friend’s unfortunate death. You were obfuscating. People on that thread were noting the correlation between neo pagan sodomy and the introduction of the Human Papilloma Virus in many different orifices. Not only has anal and colon cancer increased in prevalance among sodomites but oral cancers as well. Those facts inconveniently contradict the current hedonistic and homosexual decadent narrative that is being propagated in modern day America.
Absolutely we should not assume that because someone has colorectal
cancer they are somehow specially wicked.
I am just saying that the increase in it among the young is certainly tied to the promotion of anal sex. It is very very bad for people and should be condemned not encouraged.
Life is full of risks and we are vulnerable to those risks by genetics and circumstances. Some of those risks are manageable, some preordained, some variable and some artificial.
Personally, I will deal with those risks as I see their potential impact on me, not some group defined by criteria developed in artificial collectivism or social sensitivity.
That is why I don't get tested for sickle cell anemia (I am not black) or get a pap smear (I am a male) and why others may need to get tested for diseases they are statistically prone to develop. That does not make me a racist or social misfit to recognize that, it makes me a pragmatist.
Most of us here are guilty of that flippancy. When it happens to me, I first try to inquire to the person who responded to me in such a manner, as to their intent, as intent on a message board is usually hard to discern accurately. So, I give people a chance to explain their intent. In the majority of cases I find that my interpretation of what was posted to me, was misunderstood by me.
I quit caffeine a year and a half ago. No issues just quit drinking 1 to 3 diet cokes a day. Never liked or drank coffee.
Colonoscopy is a business. You may be able to detect cancer. That does not mean you can save the patient. Or that your life won’t be a living hell after the cancer is detected. A mammogram does not stop double mastectomies. You can almost equate it to that chimney sweep who offers to inspect your chimney for free. He’s really drumming up business. If you feel that your family history dictates a colonoscopy then go ahead. But if there is no reason to suspect anything is wrong with your colon, you are likely in the 99%+ of people for whom a colonoscopy is a waste of time. And if you are in the other group, your doctor is giving out no guarantees. You will always worry, and you will go through lots of very uncomfortable procedures.
“. A mammogram does not stop double mastectomies. “
Your statement makes no sense.
1. Other treatments are successful.
2. A double mastectomy is better than death.
“. A mammogram does not stop double mastectomies. “
Your statement makes no sense.
1. Other treatments are successful.
2. A double mastectomy is better than death.
2) A double Mastectomy may be better than death. But it does not guarantee life. Nor was death guaranteed without the DM.
I'm so sorry to hear it. Bless you.
What a gallant response. A great addition to this thread.
I won’t knowingly associate with any queer.
And now, iHeartRadio screen has been taken over by faggot propaganda.
I only minimally accept them as human beings such that I wouldn’t kick them in the face unnecessarily.
Abomination.
My post was not directed at you personally, but at a wide range of responses; no need to take offense. Glad you recognize the value of timely checkups. Keep up the good work at staying healthy!
Always good to get a check up
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