Comments on: New Screening Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer

By: Dr. Methylation

Dr. Methylation — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:24:45 +0000

Anti-neoplastic chemo”therapy” drugs and radiation are guaranteed mechanisms that are cytotoxic to both mutagenic AND healthy cells. Early detection of non-metastatic polyps followed by “treatment” is a proven method to spread cancer throughout the body. Do you want to have some ignorant businessman in a white lab coat with a stethiscope to prescribe a carcinogen that will cost you, and your health insurer, +$50000/year, with it guaranteed to spread the cancer . . . not cure it? Synthetic molecules pushed by today’s pharmaceutical companies most likely commit DNA methyltransferase–>they hack your DNA/mRNA by attaching carbon atoms to the CpG islands, turning off cellular sensisence (apoptosis), propogating cells with no programmed cell death (cancer).
Do a search on Google Scholar to verify the science of these cancer preventatives:
EGCG, curcumin, polyphenol flavanoid antioxidants.
Health care in the US is a business sham, and extremely toxic. Learn organic chemistry and protect yourself from the ignorance of unethical and morally corrupt businessmen with a “PhD” at the end of their name.
Drink tea and eat curried foods . . . with a glass of red wine! (”The Color is the Cure.”)

By: jacquelyn

jacquelyn — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:46:19 +0000

For me being a self-empoyed, uninsured 57 year old female with no family history of colon probems, the issue is cost of the procedures/tests. Until I get old enough for government coverage, it is a risk I am willing to take.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:18:29 +0000

AS I mentioned above, if you get the CT I had you see more organs and yes if something is found then they
would have to still do sugery. In my case, the surgeon was highly recommended and when I asked him about Lap he said no we need to gut you so we can get at everything. I later found that the intire procedure could have been done with Lap but not many surgeons are skilled enough. Using Lap leaves less chances for infections and recovery time is much less.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:04:51 +0000

For men cancers occur mostly in the last part of the colon, for women the whole large bowel is a problem area. I had colon cancer first suspected from VC cat scan and confirmed by colonoscopy. Three years now after surgery and appear to be cancer free. The oncologist wants a colonoscopy showing me free of polyps so she can forget about me. Since this cancer is the second most likely cause of death, I say have a colonoscopy done at the recommended age of 50 for the first one. If some polyps are found, they usually can be removed at that time. With a VC colonoscopy, if something is found, you will still need a real colonoscopy to verify or remove polyps.

By: colonoscopyVeteran

colonoscopyVeteran — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:04:52 +0000

I’ve been through three colonoscopy procedures and if the efficacy of the CT colonoscopy procedure is sound it will save money and lives.

Personally, I’d rather suffer through some bloating gas pains from inflating the colon for the CT colonoscopy versus the prep work of having the regular colonoscopy procedure. The prep work is worse than the procedure.

It sounds like the CT colonoscopy is less invasive to the body and lessens the amount of equipment that needs to be autoclaved and inserted into the body. That lowers the risk of infection and risk of damaging the walls of the colon.

By: Chatti Yahoo

Chatti Yahoo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:26:14 +0000

I agree with Adrian. I always say no because of the prep. Something needs to be done with the uncomfortable prep and I’ll do the colonoscopy. But until I retire I can’t afford to be as uncomfortable for the two or 3 days it takes to get ready and sleep off the test.

By: Greg Finley

Greg Finley — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:25:37 +0000

Hey, I had my first sigmoidoscopy (short-scope colonoscopy) last summer at age 56. Everybody says the prep is so bad and so uncomfortable. Not so. In my case, I put the wrong date on my calendar and began my prep one day too early. So, rather than rescheduling the procedure, I did the prep again…so I did it twice in 2 days! It’s no big deal, folks. The worst part is that you have to get up a lot and go to the toilet. Big deal. The worst part is the Fleet’s phospho-soda…yuck, mostly because I just got sick and tired of it. Oh well, a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do. There was some minor discomfort during the procedure as the scope reached the top part of my descending colon, but the images were really interesting. The BEST part was that I scheduled the procedure first thing in the morning, then treated myself to a nice, big, restaurant breakfast.
So, my advice is….do it! It’s not scary, it’s not painful, just kind of annoying, like life is sometimes. It can save your life…research shows that half of all colon cancers occur in the lower 1/3 of the colon, so go have yourself checked out. Health and long life to all!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:22:23 +0000

I had the Barium Enema four years ago Diverticulitis. No surgery was done at that time.
It kept flaring up and so I had a Multi detector Helical CT of the abdomen and pelvis with oral and intravenous contrast with 5 mm slice thickness. One thing about this procedure is you cover multi organs at the same time. In my case sections through the lung bases, liver, spleen, pancreas, adrenal glands and kidneys showed no abnormalities and was no hydronephrosis. They could also see no free intrapitoneal or extraperitoneal air in the abdomen or pelvis.
They did see the Diver and removed a section of my colon in Jan or 2007.. Diver is another heredity thing.

The other good thing is they gave me the x-rays to keep along with the report. The reason this is good is because they now see small traces of blood in my urine and are sending me to a Urologist. He wants me to bring those scans and report in when he sees me even though they were taken in Nov of 2006.
BTW they didn’t want to do a colonoscopy on an irritated colon in my case.

By: JERRY

JERRY — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:22:12 +0000

THERE IS A GOOD REASON PEOPLE TRY TO AVIOD DOCTORS. MOST OF THEM ARE NOTHING BUT PILL PUSHERS THAT ONLY WANT TO UP THE DRUG COMPANIES BOTTOM LINE (AND THEIR OWN). ITS NOT THAT WE WANT TO AVIOD DOCTORS WE JUST DON’T TRUST THEM AND WITH GOOD REASON. “SUDDENLY SICK” IS GOOD READING.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:02:44 +0000

I had a colonoscopy last Monday without any anesthesia and the only pain I had was like intermittent mild gas pains. Maybe I have a high pain threshold. By far the worst part was the prep. The Colyte made me vomit at the 2.5 liter point and finished 3 liters out of 4, so the colonoscopy was not complete and will have to do it again. I will try Fleet Phospho-Soda next time, but the doctor says I will need to drink 24, 8 ounce glasses of fluid to make sure I do not dehydrate. Will clean two gallon milk containers and put water with some fruit juice to get it all down. I wonder how bad the Fleet Phospho-Soda is.