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Study blasts colorectal screening test
MSNBC ^
| 01/18/05
| Associated Press
Posted on 01/18/2005 7:33:03 AM PST by JusticeTalion
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To: JusticeTalion
As one recuperating from cancer, I take all types of cancer seriously...
...but my days of feeling like Kermit the Frog are over. The next soul who comes near me wearing a rubber glove saying the words "bend over" gets both their arms broken!
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posted on
01/18/2005 8:37:48 AM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I have to keep my expectations low. I can't fake looking impressed.)
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To: RichardW
I had it done about a month ago. I agree about the day leading up to it is worse than the procedure itself!
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posted on
01/18/2005 8:41:42 AM PST
by
Hildy
( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
To: JusticeTalion
It's my opinion that "colorectal" and "blasts" should never be used in the same sentence.
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posted on
01/18/2005 8:44:14 AM PST
by
sbelew
To: RichardW
This disease just killed the CEO of McDonald's and he was only 44 years old.
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posted on
01/18/2005 8:44:18 AM PST
by
Capt. Tom
(Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
To: JusticeTalion; Grampa Dave; Dog Gone; snopercod; Southack; Ernest_at_the_Beach; tubebender
"God bless our troops wherever they may be."While I share this heartfelt sentiment... What in the name of phony Chiropractic Colonics has this got to do with the danged story???
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posted on
01/18/2005 9:23:52 AM PST
by
SierraWasp
(Moderates, are just too chicken to commit to any ideal!!! They prefer sophisticated sophistry...)
To: Polybius
I meant "some way" other than the invasive colonoscopy (It takes 1 to 2 hours, requires sedatives, pain medication and, in rare cases, can cause bleeding and tearing of the intestines). Doesn't make me want to run right out for one. Not to mention they are only recommended every 10 years. "Some way" less intense, more often and more accurate than current techniques.
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posted on
01/18/2005 9:42:46 AM PST
by
JusticeTalion
(Vulcan's never bluff.)
To: Motherbear
Ask for the pills. I refuse to drink that nasty stuff.Pills?! They've got pills now?! Aaaaaargh.....
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posted on
01/18/2005 9:45:39 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
To: JusticeTalion
I do a bit of colorectal blasting myself.....
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posted on
01/18/2005 9:47:39 AM PST
by
Cogadh na Sith
(--Scots Gaelic: 'War or Peace'--)
Comment #30 Removed by Moderator
To: Motherbear
Whoa, that's a lot better than drinking mass quantities of that stuff that tasted like road salt. Heck, to my mind the colon prep was the worst part of the procedure. The pills sound much, much better.
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posted on
01/18/2005 9:55:03 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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posted on
01/18/2005 10:14:50 AM PST
by
snopercod
(Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart)
To: Polybius
There is already a fantastic way to detect colon cancer: Colonoscopy.My insurance won't pay the $3,000 cost of a screening colonosopy unless I have a positive Hemoccult test...by which time I would be already dead.
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posted on
01/18/2005 10:17:44 AM PST
by
snopercod
(Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart)
To: SierraWasp
It's the AP school of Journalism.....lumps things together because....well,just because.....
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posted on
01/18/2005 10:56:18 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: SierraWasp
Why are you on this thread anyway, ?
Cause of that article I posted on Dark Fiber?
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posted on
01/18/2005 10:59:36 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; snopercod
"Dark Fiber?"Ernesto! You have simply GOT TO stop cracking me up like dis!!! I dunno what drew me to this thread and it's crappy topic, except that I think it was Mr. snopercod that done did it!!!
Him and his $3,K MRI and his lame inshurunce cumpany. Heck, snoper... I got me wunna them there Sigmoidoscopies when I was around yur age and my inshurunce cumpuny that I wuzza movin to, wanted ta know why a guy at my age wuzza doin sucha thang!!!
So I tole 'em that I wuzza big phan uv Ronaldus Maganus whose magnificent colon had been scrutinized by every member of the medja to the n'th degree all ovur TeeVee, and since I'd just gotten outta politicks, I figured that it wuzza wize thang ta git done at that there time in my life if'n I din't wanna leave a widowed wife, right?
I mean I wrote 'em a bigassed ol explanation like dat an dey bought it hook, line and stinker!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!
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posted on
01/18/2005 11:18:01 AM PST
by
SierraWasp
(Moderates, are just too chicken to commit to any ideal!!! They prefer sophisticated sophistry...)
To: SierraWasp; snopercod
I haven't had this experience as of yet.
But at my advanced age I suppose I should think about it.
But then I eat a lot of apples....
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posted on
01/18/2005 11:36:12 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Floyd R Turbo
I feel it is important to eat, so I have some just have to be careful. Apparently he felt I needed to know that.
To: television is just wrong
colon cancer is one of the most preventable killers. some cancers srpead to quickly for adequate screening i.e. ovarian and small cell lung ca. mammography is a good but not perfect screen for breast ca, pap smears are the most effective screen( cervical cancer) .
problem with colon screening is that many people will not get colonoscopy- it is not pleasant, but there is a new screen -ct colonography that is much more palatable.
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posted on
01/18/2005 11:55:30 AM PST
by
avitot
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