Showing posts with label home health tests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home health tests. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Collect your poop, skip your colonoscopy.

Wear this t-shirt to school in 1975, get kicked out of class. Don't ask me how I know this. 

Okay, Mark -- here's your alternative.

You Could Skip Your Colonoscopy If You’re Willing To Collect Your Poop, by Katherine Hobson (FiveThirtyEight)

... No one is arguing colonoscopy is a bad test. It just hasn’t been shown to be better than an annual FIT, said James Allison, a clinical professor of medicine emeritus at the University of California-San Francisco ...

Previously: Have you had a colonoscopy? If not, it may be time. Mine's tomorrow.