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[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ah. Thank you very much for this information!

My doctor briefly mentioned this after I brought up some issues that my coworker had at 38.

The testing span of 10 years is long, but I have family members who had serious complications from a colonoscopy. I imagine the risk is high enough that 10 years is often enough to catch some measured percentage of the population that develops treatable cancer..