The Colon Cancer Detection Industry - It Goes Unquestioned

[Johnny2X2X]

113. LOL at people thinking colonoscopies are profit driven

It's not a high dollar procedure and it's not something doctors are thinking about doing to make money. It's one of those screenings that there is a little debate on when it should be done and when it is most useful. People over a certain age being told they don't need them is basically just a doctor saying, even if we find something, colon cancer is so slow moving that you'll probably die of something else first because you're so old.

Not everything is big coprorations trying to make money, colonoscopies are simple, low tech, and non surgical, they aren't major revenue sources for any clinic. They save lives and save you having to endure expensive and devastating cancer treatment later in your life, the type of treatment that is actually profitable for clinics. If doctors were priarily concerned about money, they screen no one for colon cancer, because the cancer treatments later in bring in 100 time the revenue of colonoscopies.

They found 2 small polyps during mine that were easily excised, labs determined they were benign but would have had around a 10% chance of developing into cancer within the next decade. So instead of a 1 in 10 chance of getting colon cancer, the screening now has me at a 1 in 100 chance roughly.