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Over 60's Bowel Cancer Testing Kit
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Have recently had the pleasure of doing the above and have failed 2 tests.
I'm now booked in to have a colonoscopy a week Monday. Has anyone else been through this?
BTW I feel fine apart from the obvious worry about this. Thanks.
I'm now booked in to have a colonoscopy a week Monday. Has anyone else been through this?
BTW I feel fine apart from the obvious worry about this. Thanks.
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I've done a couple of these, with an operation in between.
The first thing to say is that all that has been found so far is some blood in your stool sample. The vast majority of failures are caused by something comparativel y minor - piles etc. Even eating really rare meat the night before has been shown to give false positives. And, as parkdale has said, some...
11:12 Sat 10th Nov 2012