[modec]

In Denmark, when you turn 50 you start sending in a stool sample every other year. If it works, I think I like that model better.

[bluGill]

My mother in law had a negative stool sample and died of colon cancer 9 months later.

[yencabulator]

And colonoscopies miss 60% of the precancerous polyps. There's no such thing as a guarantee in healthcare.

> The skill of a doctor doing a colonoscopy is often measured by their adenoma detection rate — how often they find a precancerous polyp. American doctors find them 40% of the time.