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THE STRAIGHT POOP ABOUT COLON CANCER

HEALTH

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 second-deadliest cancer in men. But that's also why scientists are researching better methods to spot the disease.

Right now a number of screening options are available: stool-sample tests, a bloodsample test, even a virtual test. Tests

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