Can you do home tests for checking for colon cancer?!
Question: I heard that you could & i would much prefer that way.Please help & no stupid answers,please?
Answers: I heard that you could & i would much prefer that way.Please help & no stupid answers,please?
No. You will need xrays and a body scan by your doctor. My mother died of colon cancer. Not pretty. If you think you need help, see a doctor right away. Colon cancer is one of the easier to cure cancers if it is caught in time.
This is no place to find a medical diagnosis. You need to find a source for medical consultation that will give you some confidence in the findings.
The only way to detect cancer is with a surgical biopsy, and sometimes even those are not 100% accurate.
I have had experience with various medical resources including the Mayo Clinic, Sloan Kettering, Northwestern University, etc.
From personal experience, the resource that provides the most competent cancer diagnosis and treatment is the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
I would urge you to get a referral and make an appointment as soon as you can.
If you have your own colonoscope, then you might be able to do it. It's more comfortable in a medical facility, though. If you gave yourself a sedative, it might make it difficult for you to navigate the colon safely. Without the sedative, it would be quite painful.
Go get it done. You'll be glad you did and wonder afterward what you were making such a big deal about.
Any test that checked for cancer cells would only reveal a true positive after it was too late to do anything about it.
Technically, yes you can. Last year CVS Pharmacies heavily advertised a free home colon cancer screening test. I picked one up to take to a meeting with me to show my GI docs. I no longer have the test as we tore it up in the meeting. It was easy to use, but it didn