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.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        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.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I just laugh that the bowel prep laxative brand we use at the hospital is called, “Golytely” - pronounced go-lightly lmao.