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61. Should You Bother Getting a Colonoscopy?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Colon Cancer Risk - What Is Your Risk?

The risk overall of dying of collet cancer was low. Even in the control group, it was not higher than 0.3%, which is a very low risk. The all-cause mortality was not different between the groups. And then I think it's the information we need to give to patients or to people to make a conscious decision about if they want to do this or not.

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