https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blood-test-shows-83-accuracy-for-detecting-colorectal-cancer-study-finds/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8d&linkId=360460058
A new screening method for colorectal cancer may be on the horizon. A clinical study showed 83% accuracy for a blood test intended to detect early colorectal cancer.
I hope by the time of my next colonoscopy (9 years), they'll have figured this out to the point that it really works, because colonoscopy prep is the worst.
My doctor just had me shit in a box.
Honestly, I think I'd rather do a colonoscopy next time if the blood test isn't a normal thing by then. Shitting into a box, then taping it up and delivering it to UPS felt like a war crime.
Trust me, that is so much better than colonoscopy prep. Between what you have to drink, how much you have to drink, and the fact that every single drop of shit comes out of your body over the course of a 24 hour period is hellish.
I just laugh that the bowel prep laxative brand we use at the hospital is called, "Golytely" - pronounced go-lightly lmao.
Same. And worrying if it's done a good enough job. The colonoscopy the time before my last one I had PEG solution and the magnesium citrate. Then I thought I was going to die. My blood pressure got really low and I couldn't function for a couple days. The doctor had me on a re-check in 5 years so the colonoscopy I had last year they only had me do PEG along with the liquid diet and that was so much better. Still not pleasant but I didn't get so weak and faint. I think there was a shortage of Mg citrate. If you can just do the PEG solution that might help and be enough. I don't go back for 9 years and hopefully the blood test will be enough.
If I read correctly this has the same detection rate as the shit test. I'm in my 50's and asked my doctor about taking the shit test. She said that she was reluctant to have me do it because the high rate of false positives caused unnecessary stress and trauma in many people. I trust her, so I didn't press for it.
I rather apply limitations on what I eat so I won't need blood tests to know whether I am healthy or not :|
So you mean that by not eating junk food in colossal quantities, instead taking seldom a morser\nibble, I am harming myself more?
Ah yes, cancer, that thing that is only caused by food, and definitely not caused by genetic or environmental factors!
It surely helps if one avoids chunking down junk food.
Of course pollution doesn't help.
That is why it is better to live on the outskirts and go into the big city only for work and leisure.
Cancer can appear in anyone, at any time, no matter how healthy you are. In fact your body is constantly generating the precursors to cancer due to unavoidable genetic damage (age, sunlight, cosmic radiation, pure random chance during cell division), but has processes to eliminate them before they spread. Cancer is when these processes fail and the damaged cell is allowed to reproduce. Being healthy only reduces the number of dice you're rolling.
Colorectal cancer is especially insidious as the colon is constantly shedding cells (the more often cells split, the higher the cancer risk), and often there aren't any symptoms until it's too late. Everyone should get checked out periodically.
Eating healthily contributes to overall well-being and can reduce the risk of many diseases, including some cancers. However, it's not a foolproof protection. Genetic factors and environmental exposures also play significant roles in cancer risk. It seemed from your initial statement as if you believed a healthy diet could make one immune to cancer, leading to the reactions you received. .
You sound like you're espousing the same kind of woo as Steve Jobs did.
"Oh, even though I have the super treatable form of pancreatic cancer and not the super deadly kind, I'm sure eating fruits and nuts and avoiding red meat is just as good as chemo and radiation therapy and OH NO MY APPLE HAS NOW FALLEN OFF THE TREE!"
(Wait, are we even federated with the afterlife?)
I don't have tumors or cancers because I medically check myself once in a while, but I still avoid eating junk food or overly processed food except seldom to avoid increasing my own risk of contracting ailments or maladies.
When there is party like a barbecue, I am very voracious on the meat because I eat it sparingly (but I eat the type of meat you purchase almost 0 KM away from your own trusted family-led butcher shop)
It's called common sense.