I get to post a poo, very reassuring as My Dad died from bowel cancer.
The Medical Thread
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Same demise as my Grandmother on my Mother's side in 1949. She was engaged to my Grandfather in 1899 and they died a month apart (he suffered from Angina, a heart attack for him, died in bed in front of Mum and her sister bringing him breakfast). I never met them.
Starts at 50, NHS send you a kit that you dip in to your poo, then send it off in an envelope - they send you results a few weeks later. Comes every three years...you should've had a couple by now young man
Had my test kit every two years, I think once you reach 75 you have to request it. As my mother died from it I would continue with it when I reach that age...
Anyone who’s seen the article in the Times or elsewhere today which says two drinks a day puts your chances of getting bowel cancer up by 25%, don’t panic. These articles, which drive me to distraction, never put things in context. Your overall chance of getting bowel cancer as a male in the UK (sorry Beth) is 1 in 17 or about 5.9%. So a 25% increase takes it to just over 7% . The gambling fraternity can work out the risk. Not significant enough for me to change my habits, especially as the excellent screening programme catches things early in many cases. Also a diet with plenty of healthy stuff reduces the risk.
Off to Stourbridge for a few pints of mild in the epicentre of English pub culture.
Off to Stourbridge for a few pints of mild in the epicentre of English pub culture.
If we were to believe every health article quoting 'studies' etc we'd all be raving hypochondriacs. Much of it is sensationalised bollox...
There’s a 25% chance that 95% of men have sensationalised their bollox to at least 65% of women (whether 35% of them knew it or not) the other 40% felt embarrassed with theirs but still felt 50% if the time it was worth a go otherwise 75% of them would suffer what the study called ‘percentile erection’. Don’t be one of the 70% that ignore it.
Speaking of stats ............. Here in Oz, one in six men are diagnosed with the common prostate cancer each year, with those figures increasing each year.
It would seem, most the guys my age or over have been diagnosed recently. The rate s not 1 in 6, more like 6 or 7 out of every ten!
of course detected early, bit like the bowel screening ........................... everything is sorted readily enough.
Footnote - How is your wife, Kiwi?
She went in today?
She's in getting it done now
She didn't enjoy the cleansing
Was a quiet night for me though as she spent most of the night in the little girls room
Just picked Mrs kiwi up
Two more polyps removed
Two more polyps removed
106% of statisticians are unemployed due to this type of rumour mongering
I stumbled on the attached 2023 "rejection" letter related to my ongoing colon cancer screening and after a long phone conversation and completing a "revised" intake family history I am now back in the program and having "poop on the stick" test kit mailed to me. I had been rejected because having a grandmother, on my Mother's family side, dying of bowel cancer, no longer qualified me (now has to be an immediate family member).
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I’ve got a video of my last colonoscopy if anyone is interested
they only give you photos here
might get to dvd in twenty years
I’ll send you a DM with a link to my only fans page
itll just be a room full of empty tequila bottles