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I'll answer any questions I can that you may have about what it's like to get a colonoscopy.
Friends,
Please, please do not answer other folks questions on things like colon cancer screening guidelines unless you know what you're talking about or I will have to block you.
Please, please do not answer other folks questions on things like colon cancer screening guidelines unless you know what you're talking about or I will have to block you.
To correct a factual inaccuracy someone else posted:
It is *not* true that all guidelines recommend screening starts at age 50. The American Academy of Gastroenterology recommends that African Americans start screening at age 45. https://gi.org/patients/gi-health-and-disease/colon-cancer-fact-sheet/
It is *not* true that all guidelines recommend screening starts at age 50. The American Academy of Gastroenterology recommends that African Americans start screening at age 45. https://gi.org/patients/gi-health-and-disease/colon-cancer-fact-sheet/
As Dr. Blackstock pointed out, "Black Americans have the highest mortality & lowest survival rates" for colorectal cancer.
I will not allow this space to contribute to the medical racism, even inadvertently, that causes those disparate outcomes. https://twitter.com/uche_blackstock/status/1299583204941271042?s=20
I will not allow this space to contribute to the medical racism, even inadvertently, that causes those disparate outcomes. https://twitter.com/uche_blackstock/status/1299583204941271042?s=20
For more on why mortality of colorectal cancer in African Americans hasn't decreased as much, please 
: https://twitter.com/uche_blackstock/status/1299585090083852290?s=20
: https://twitter.com/uche_blackstock/status/1299585090083852290?s=20
