EVERYBODY LOVES to complain about getting a colonoscopy—how it’s a time suck and how emptying your colon is a pain in the, uh, neck—and then not get one. That’s scary when you consider that after lung cancer, colon cancer is the seconddeadliest cancer in men. But that’s also why scientists are researching better, easier methods to spot the disease.
Right now a number of screening options are available: stool-sample tests, a blood-sample test, even a virtual test. Tests you can do in the comfort of your own home also require the comfort to basically poop in a cup or on a
