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Originally Posted by cschin4
I now see more "preventative" procedures being done than ever before such as screening colonoscopies, EGD's etc. I agree that prevention is worth a pound of cure, but there are ALOT of these being done and at what cost to society?
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I think we need to shift the focus even more toward prevention and early detection. I'd much rather have colon cancer diagnosed while it is a 1cm polyp found and removed on a screening colonoscopy than when it has spread throughout my body and is too late to do anything about. Look at how survival rates for things like colon and breast cancer have changed over the years and you'll see the benefit of all those screening procedures. It is much cheaper to do a colonoscopy than to do a radical colectomy, radiation and chemo (and then still have the patient die anyway).