http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/how-accurate-is-colonoscopy-to-screen.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/how-accurate-is-colonoscopy-to-screen.html#comment-175576 Anonymous Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:36:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/how-accurate-is-a-colonoscopy-to-screen-for-colon-cancer.html#comment-175576 As a survivor of colon cancer, 4/5 colon removal, ostamy and take down, with two subsequent colonostamies, or perhaps sigmoidostamies in my case, less colon to traverse, it's a bit unnerving to have a suggestion of such percentage of missed cancer signs even with camera exploration in a "being right there" real sense.  Many say (males especially) that the procedure is unthinkable but it's for me a ritual that I gratefully undergo because the foregoing experience came without former testing and was assuredly unpleasant and more certainly life threatening.  It is for me a slight discomfort but in no way painful. As a survivor of colon cancer, 4/5 colon removal, ostamy and take down, with two subsequent colonostamies, or perhaps sigmoidostamies in my case, less colon to traverse, it’s a bit unnerving to have a suggestion of such percentage of missed cancer signs even with camera exploration in a “being right there” real sense.  Many say (males especially) that the procedure is unthinkable but it’s for me a ritual that I gratefully undergo because the foregoing experience came without former testing and was assuredly unpleasant and more certainly life threatening.  It is for me a slight discomfort but in no way painful.

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