The Importance of Colonoscopy for Colon Cancer Screening

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Colon cancer is the only one that we can definitively look at and stop in its tracks. Not smoking would get rid of 85% of lung cancer, but 15% of lung cancers are coming in non smokers. Less than 40% of people who were told to get a colonoscopy actually did get it.

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