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re: The New Age to Get Your Colorectal Cancer Screening Is 45
Posted on 5/18/21 at 10:50 am to Sponge
Posted on 5/18/21 at 10:50 am to Sponge
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8% false negative rate for cologuard
If you're okay with those odds of possibly missing colon cancer, go for it, but a colonoscopy is significantly more reliable.
That and some insurance counts the cologuard as your screening test and make you pay for a follow up diagnostic colon out of pocket if cologuard comes back positive. Enjoy getting that bill and having to have the colonoscopy anyway.
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Posted on 5/18/21 at 10:54 am to puffulufogous
I wish I had done one at 50. Might have saved me all this I am going through now...... the prep isn’t bad if you do it right.
Posted on 5/18/21 at 1:13 pm to puffulufogous
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cologuard
My dad's practicioner recommended this since it was cheaper/less invasive. The results read something like this
There's a 10% chance that everything's fine
There's a 60% chance that you have precancerous polyps
There's a 30% chance you have colon cancer
The numbers aren't 100% accurate, but the results are pretty general, and not really all that settling. He got a colonoscopy and was cleared.
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