While it’s true that cancers today are more manageable if caught early plenty of what gets diagnosed as cancer disappears without intervention and gets very harmful surgical interventions like amputations if diagnosed. During the Obama administration they purposefully reduced cancer by policy testing to reduce the amount of false positives.
Colonoscopy is not a risk-less procedure. There’s no evidence that the advice of getting a colonoscopy if you are over 45 reduces all-cause-mortality. The biggest modern randomized colonoscopy trial (NordICC) enrolled ages 55–64 found no reduction in all-cause-mortality.
For health-conscious people “I do only things that are proven to help with the goal of not dying” is a perfectly reasonable way to relate to the topic of these kinds of tests.
While it’s true that cancers today are more manageable if caught early plenty of what gets diagnosed as cancer disappears without intervention and gets very harmful surgical interventions like amputations if diagnosed. During the Obama administration they purposefully reduced cancer by policy testing to reduce the amount of false positives.
Colonoscopy is not a risk-less procedure. There’s no evidence that the advice of getting a colonoscopy if you are over 45 reduces all-cause-mortality. The biggest modern randomized colonoscopy trial (NordICC) enrolled ages 55–64 found no reduction in all-cause-mortality.
For health-conscious people “I do only things that are proven to help with the goal of not dying” is a perfectly reasonable way to relate to the topic of these kinds of tests.