In article >,
"Dee Dee" > wrote:

> "Miche" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >,
> > Omelet > wrote:
> >
> >> In article >,
> >> "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.
> >> > Dee Dee
> >>
> >> Absolutely... except colonscopies run close to $2,000.00 around here.
> >> If you have no health insurance, many cannot do it.
> >
> > They're totally free here in the land of socialised medicine.
> >
> Shall I ask? Are they recommended by physicians and routinely done every
> five years.

Yes and yes, once you get past a certain age (I forget what it is
offhand).

> My insurance pays for what medicare does not pay. I don't have
> to ask for one; my physican schedules it, as they do a mammogram.


Routine mammograms are free, too.

Miche

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