RE: “This was my 3rd one, 5 years apart. They have never found anything (thank You God) but I have family history of colon cancer. My neighbor is younger than I and has to have one every year and they have always find polyps but never cancer. I hope Obamacare lets us have these test often enough to prevent cancer from developing”
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Yes, everyone has different circumstances re the colonoscopy — my late father had a couple of seed-sized polyps when tested in his early seventies. So, he went every year for a couple more years and then said ‘forget it.’ There was no family history of anything and he died at 82 of different issues.
I had no polyps so they told me ‘10 years.’ Maybe by 2013 the whole test will be pills and water. As for Obamacare, I hope the whole mess has been repealed somehow before our medical system, flawed though it is, is destroyed.