My doctor recommended a CT colonography for me.
I am a 55-year-old male?
The first thing to do is change your doctor.
This is a second rate test which often misses cancer or polyps. The gold
standard for screening colon cancer is a colonoscopy. You just need one test
after age 50. Ct colonography also
exposes you to your radiation and even if a mass or lesion is seen, the
technique does not allow for a biopsy.
So, if you are going to spend money, go
for a colonoscopy. There are many doctors who are ignorant and order
unnecessary tests that have low sensitivity. You have to understand that
medicine is a business and many doctors lack ethics. Scamming patients is a
well known disease in North America.
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