[ConorMacNessa]

This looks vastly preferable to colonoscopies.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Red Badger]

In the U.K., government-funded colon cancer screening doesn't start until age 60.

That way they save money, not peoples lives...................

[C210N]

Test Could Save Thousands

if that's what they want to do.

[Hodar]

The Colonoscopy every 10 yrs really isn’t that bad.

The day before is far, far worse than the Coloscopy!! In many ways, getting sedated and sleeping through the Coloscopy was the reward for doing what has to be done.

All in all, I’m going to guess that the ‘prep’ needs to be done whether you go with the flexi-scope every 5 yrs, or the Colonsocopy every 10 yrs. I don’t know about you, but I’m all for doing this only every 10 yrs for a 20 minute, sedated Colonscopy, instead of every 5 yrs with the flexi-scope.

Like I said - the day before is the worst part.

[G Larry]

It IS a colonoscopy!!!
Just the same scope that’s been used in the U.S. for at least 10 years.
The problem under socialized medicine is they restrict access!!!

[KarlInOhio]

So they only look at the lower bowel instead of the whole large intestine (too bad the article didn't tell exactly how far)? That seems like it wouldn't be as good as the full colonoscopy. Also, I have my doubts that cancer can only develop from polyps which have developed by age fifty, so once you remove the polyps you eliminate the chances for cancer.

[libstripper]

I’ve had two colonoscopies, three years apart. The doctor removed three pylops in the first and three in the second. This study looks to me like a great death panel justification.

[FarmerW]

We have those here they are called a Flex-sig or Flexible sigmoidoscopy. They only look at the very lower end not the entire colon. (That is where the majority of cancers are). These results compared a flex-sig to the fecal occult blood test not to colonoscopies. The blood stool test does nothing to prevent colon ca as it doesn’t detect or remove pre cancerous or early cancer polyps.

This study demonstrates how crappy government run health care is. All that talk of prevention to reduce cost is a lie.

Consider your health care and realize in the UK they don’t get routine colonscopies or flex-sig, they get a blood stool test only.

That is not our standard of health care.

[Logic n' Reason]

My father died of colon cancer in 1994. Had they then our current technology, my father would most likely still be alive.

I've had 5 colonoscopies in the past 10 years (as colon cancer has a good deal to do with genetics).

To date, I'm clean.

I don't care what they use to "see" in there...I'm asleep anyway when the "job is done" so to speak.

But this I can say...polyps have been found, biopsied, and been "non-cancerous" to date.

To the rest of you...especially males over 40 - GET IT DONE...AND GET IT DONE NOW!

Thanks.

[I still care]

Government funded screening doesn’t start until 60?

That is so bad. Here, if you have a member of your family that has had CA or bad polyps, the recommendation is ten years of age prior.

So if your family member had CA at 40, you should get a scope at 30. I’m not sure what the minimum age is, but 60 is way too high.

I had my first at 50 (symptomless) and I was almost completely blocked and had some bad cells in there.

Right now I have a good friend at death’s door with this. He is not 50.

[PLD]

I have a colonoscopie ever five years..I started mine when my brother died of colon cancer..His doctor suggested everyone of his family get tested..each time I get the test I have four polyps removed,those four could turn into full blown cancer if I had not of done the testing..So take the test..

[The Great RJ]

I was appalled that people 60-74 in the UK are given fecal blood tests only every other year under their vaunted health care system. That test should be done annually after age 50. I lost my Mother to colon cancer and our family history indicates a likely colon cancer gene. As a result I started getting my colonoscopies in my 40’s. I suppose under Obamacare like in the UK I wouldn’t have that option regardless of my increased risk.

[RonF]

“In the U.K., government-funded colon cancer screening doesn’t start until age 60.”

My pastor’s wife was told right after she turned 50 that she had reached the age that she should start getting colonoscopies. She went in for what she thought would be a routine procedure. They found a golf-ball sized tumor. It was removed, she underwent chemotherapy, and right now is considered disease free. Had she gone untreated she would never have seen her 60th birthday.

[The Great RJ]

Unfortunately I have a kink in my back colon (my liberal wife said said it was from being a tight assed conservative) and had to undergo a barium enema in addition to the colonoscopy. Without going into details just say you check your dignity at the door when you have a barium enema done.

[skyman]

Colonoscopy are important . My fathers colon cancer could have been caught earlier if he had one. But the tests do carry risks. A relative and a neighbor both died from one. The last on I had the person just before me was rushed to emergency after the colon wall was perforated. That’s what happened to the ones that died.

[KosmicKitty]

Researchers used the test on people in their 50s. In the U.K., government-funded colon cancer screening doesn't start until age 60.

My mother was dead of colon cancer by then.

I started my screening at age 40

Guess BO care will put an end to that!!