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61. Should You Bother Getting a Colonoscopy?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Colon Cancer Screening in the US

The US tends to be an outlier for pretty much the entire world in that we use colonoscopy preferentially as our colon cancer screening modality. In Europe, the predominant modality is the Feculocalpla and they actually do it every other year whereas in the US, our recommendations are every year. And why is it that we rely more heavily on colonoscopy in the US compared to other countries? We're a resource-wealthy nation and we like to use the best and the strongest resources we have.

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