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Friday, March 21, 2003For the study, which appears in the March 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Sirovich and her colleagues used data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on 49,000 men from 50 states. The researchers found that 75 percent of men aged 50 and older reported having had a prostate cancer screening test at least once, while only 63 percent had colorectal cancer screening. I have trouble convincing some people with family histories of colon cancer to have a colonoscopy. I've even had people with known colon polyps who refuse to go through the colonoscopy again. Very few people request a colonoscopy. But, I have a lot of men who specifically request the blood test for prostate cancer. Someday, we might have a blood test or stool test (less favored by patients than blood tests, but favored more than colonoscopies) to screen for colon cancer. Time will tell. posted by Sydney on 3/21/2003 08:30:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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