NP; Colonoscopy

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As long as we are on this, colo-rectal cancer is the most preventable
cancer. You just have to put up with an indignity every few years.

Glad for you that your family member had the procedure, and I deeply wish
you and him/her all the best. It is a lousy situation.


> While anecdotes are risky things, a close family member recently had a
> malignant growth discovered through a routine colonoscopy -- a lousy
> situation, to be sure, but right now we're grateful for the procedure.
>
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> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:15 PM
> To: Michael Bailey
> Cc: Pynchon Liste
> Subject: Re: NP; Colonoscopy
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> There is a 1/7000 chance of perforation or other potentially deadly
> mistake.
>
>> didn't know he was writing again - hope so!
>>
>> My friend Jerry at work recently got one,
>> and I'm not kidding, he was glowing
>>
>> but my other friend Bob at work told me the guy across the
>> street from him got one and bled to death internally from some
>> kind of complication...
>>
>> if true - not sayin' Bob's a liar, but I don't
>> know if he has a fact-checking department -
>> anyway, if true, probably a very rare occurrence...
>>
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