Posted on 01/18/2005 7:33:03 AM PST by JusticeTalion
Potentially cancerous growths missed 95 percent of the time
PHILADELPHIA - A common screening test failed to detect potentially cancerous colon growths 95 percent of the time, falsely reassuring patients and doctors, according to a new study.
Researchers found that the digital, in-office test on stool samples was not as reliable as a six-sample test given to patients to do on their own at home although even that test detected potentially cancerous growths less than 24 percent of the time.
"What we found is that it was pretty worthless," Dr. David Lieberman, one of the study's authors, said of the in-office test. "It's a wake-up call that we shouldn't be relying on this test."
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
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Here's to Reagan's colon!
This is only for old people. What are we doing here? And what is this Dark Fiber Ernest is talking about...
Apples?!? I don't got to show you no steenkin APPLES!!!
An apple a day... keeps the Doctor away, right Ernest???
Dark fibre... Isn't that what hits the proverbial fan and coats the light bulbs till everything goes dark??? (or is that "Dark Matter?")
He snopercod and tubebender! Have either of you guys ever seen an arobic digester??? (you know... like down at the water treatment plant?)
Sure. That's where the fecal debris hits the fan.
Exactly what I said about my recent 40th high school reunion.
What's with the french fried lingo, there, young man??? Sounds like a Kerry matter to me!!!
My wife is a medical transcriptionist, so we talk about "fecal debris" and stuff like that over supper.
I'm not sure whether this is found on his beachfront, or if he's afraid of being left in the dark about it, or what!!!
Maybe he's recalling Dandy Don Merideth singin "Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over!" But then that would have been "Dark Matter" and that's a truly universal subject, come to think of it...
So what do you think of the rectum as a whole?
The tastless pills that take the place of the liquid are called visicol. Ask for them next time.
I don't wanna "bite my tongue!" My health insurance has a $2,500 calendar year deductible and it's too early in the calendar year to start in on expenses of stitching it up if it bleeds, if ya know what I mean...
Use your spil cker nxt tyme...
How....and at the same time?
(I'm turning 53 and my doc suggested I have this done...but I'm scared sh_tless... LOL!)
Is the CT colonography as effective as colonoscopy at spotting and evaluating polyps? Are the preps similar?
Check your freepmail.
I haven't had one, but after I do, I'll ask him if he could write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up there.
Yep. If your doc is having you drink a gallon of fluid, he's a little out of date on his procedure. My family has a history of this sort of cancer, so I'm getting checked for the first time later this month. Purely preventative, but I hope there's nothing there.
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.
Thanks for the info. I assume that the CT approach is also cheaper, though it carries some probability of having to pay the cost of colonoscopy anyway if positive. So is there a logic here that says without history of problems, start and monitor with CT, and with history of problems, go directly to and periodically repeat colonoscopy?
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