"People still have to go through the unpleasant task of purging their digestive systems the night before, but the virtual test requires no anesthesia or sedation."
Now why didin't this news come out TWO WEEKS ago BEFORE my exam!!!! Will look into it.
By the way, Mirlax solution GREAT improvement over golytley in my book.
They are also working on a DNA test to detect cancer via a stool specimen. I don't know the big details, one of the GI docs was talking about it the other day.
Basically, the DNA that cancer sheds into the stool is different than the normal stuff that gets shed, so the lucky lab people do something to get the DNA from the poo, examine it and the only people who get scoped are the ones who have abnormal DNA.
He says this will be standard of care within a few years.... We can at least cross our fingers and hope he's right.
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They are also working on a DNA test to detect cancer via a stool specimen. I don't know the big details, one of the GI docs was talking about it the other day.
Basically, the DNA that cancer sheds into the stool is different than the normal stuff that gets shed, so the lucky lab people do something to get the DNA from the poo, examine it and the only people who get scoped are the ones who have abnormal DNA.
He says this will be standard of care within a few years.... We can at least cross our fingers and hope he's right.