I had colon cancer where they check for it by putting a camera on a cable up the butt.
But the recent time I went for a check what they needed was a small poop sample for the lab.
That’s advancement!
Get the colonoscopy stool sample miss way too much
I had the colorguard test, but was not satisfied, it has a 10 to 15% false positive.. I went on had the colonoscopy to be on the safe side, no polyps.
My youngest son was diagnosed with cancerous polyps in early 2019. They operated in April, and he went through 6 months of chemo treatments. So far, so good. He was 49 when he was diagnosed. The gastroenterologist told him he wished he had come to see him ten years earlier, but then he also said, my son would have only been 39 at the time, and they don’t screen people for colon cancer that young unless there is a history of it in the family. My Dad had polyps. They were removed twice, but none were cancerous. Of course he died years later of lung cancer.
There’s a test invented in Israel where you swallow a capsule with a camera in it. It takes photos all the way through the system and comes out at the end. That’s technology!
First, it is not a big deal at all.
It is able to spot things that need to be looked at and tell you how often you need to be tested. They told me, nothing of danger. See us in 10 years. Very reassuring.
Mrs. RWA had a few things that should be looked at in 5 years. It was interesting to see the differences between mine and hers. The poop test can't do that.