I will be 54 this year, 4 years beyond the recommended colonoscopy initial screening age of 50. I've been putting it off for a number of reasons. None of them particularly good.
As part of my overall life 're-grouping' which I'll chalk up to my 2/3 life crisis (having long ago gone through mid life!), I'm catching up on things that I've put off because I didn't give them the proper priority in my life. Not so much a crisis as it is a consolidation of focus and energy. It helps too that I spoke to a friend of mine whose ex husband died last year of colon cancer.
I write this post to provide some information for consideration to those, like me, who might be on the fence about the necessity of colo-rectal screening procedures, specifically a colonoscopy. If you are behind in looking after your behind, then consider the graph below, from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. The data is combined for 2010, and displays the incidence rate (how many new cases) for that year.. Visit the website here to explore on your own to see great granularity for males, females and race profiles.
As part of my overall life 're-grouping' which I'll chalk up to my 2/3 life crisis (having long ago gone through mid life!), I'm catching up on things that I've put off because I didn't give them the proper priority in my life. Not so much a crisis as it is a consolidation of focus and energy. It helps too that I spoke to a friend of mine whose ex husband died last year of colon cancer.
I write this post to provide some information for consideration to those, like me, who might be on the fence about the necessity of colo-rectal screening procedures, specifically a colonoscopy. If you are behind in looking after your behind, then consider the graph below, from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. The data is combined for 2010, and displays the incidence rate (how many new cases) for that year.. Visit the website here to explore on your own to see great granularity for males, females and race profiles.
