Dee Dee > wrote:

>"Omelet" > wrote in message

>> "Dee Dee" > wrote:

>>> Said it before and will say it again: Dr. in Georgetown I go to told me
>>> colon cancer is 100% totally preventable. It takes 8 years for a polyp
>>> to
>>> turn into cancer. Have colonoscopy every 5 years as recommended; they
>>> routinely cut out the polyps and biopsy everyone of them. Do the math, do
>>> the logic.

>> Absolutely... except colonscopies run close to $2,000.00 around here.
>> If you have no health insurance, many cannot do it.

>O.K. I'll restate: ...100% totally preventable if you have the money, have
>health insurance, and the motivation to get the money, get the health
>insurance, and get the colonoscopy. ;-)

The NIH believes that if the entire population follows screening
guidelines, they'd prevent 60% of colon cancers. Nothing is
100% effective.

Steve