u just do a colonscopy every 10y, thats the gold standard
fecal occult stool test help as well but those often have false positives…i had blood detected when i repeated it 5x…3x out of 5x it detected blood in my stool…but it was actually from the rectal opening lol
the polyps need 5-10y to develop into cancer so if u do every 10y ur safe from colon cancer
but thats 1 out of 100000000 cancers only…
What do you exactly mean by this? Are you suggesting that colon cancer is so rare that it only happens 1 in 10million cancers? Can you post a link as I think it is way more common than that. I just so happened I know two people who passed away from it.
Colon cancer affects 1 in 23 men and 1 in 25 women. Not horrible odds, but not great either. You have about a 4.2% chance of getting it, but it seems the odds are rising.
These seem to be getting much easier to do in the near future…
Having recently had an endoscopy and taking a full day to clear the anesthesia (propofol) I’d be sorely tempted to swallow an AI instead.
What could go wrong? 
Wow, I was in the procedure room for just over 1 hour. They woke me up and I felt a little “drunk” for less than 30 minutes and was totally normal afterwards. They gave the usual warnings of “don’t drive or ride a bike” etc nevertheless. A little bit of a sore throat that night and the next morning, and a bit gassy. Overall nothing unpleasant or long-lasting at all. Amazing that your experience can differ so much!
I do like the idea of swallowing the camera pill and then having AI read the images though.
The numbers I have:
20-30% of 40yo have a polyp of any sort. Rises to almost 50% by age 60.
~10% of 40yo have the “pre-cancerous” adenoma type
Out of those adenomas, only a fraction actually will go on to form a tumour, and that takes several years. Still, clearly some people (like James Van Der Beek) were very unlucky and must have had polyps in his 30’s, pre-cancerous by 40, and full-blown incurable stage 3 by age 46.
Lifetime risk is 4-5%, and rising, particularly in younger people. It’s definitely not 1 in 100 million 
So, if you want to be risk adverse, colonoscopy every 5y should be extremely effective. Every 10 years is most likely fine - but there is a chance you missed something in the first scan, or you have a rapidly progressing adenoma.
IMO, I just don’t see any point in the stool tests unless you can’t access, or really don’t want to do, a colonoscopy. A negative FIT/stool test doesn’t inspire much confidence, since it can’t detect much in the early stage. And, a positive test result has many explanations, as you found out. Only colonoscopy can give you the proper peace of mind.
I’d rather have a colonoscopy than colon cancer!
I’m on the 2-3 year schedule as every colonoscopy they remove 2-3 pre-cancerous polyps that each have a 10% chance of turning into cancer. Since I’ve been doing this for 15 years, that’s 10-15 polyps that had a 10% chance (each!) of turning into cancer over 10 years. I don’t like those odds at all.
If I hadn’t had my colonoscopies, I wouldn’t be here now.
I mean we have lots of cancers to worry abt and colon is just 1…figuratively
As well as accidnets, heart metabolic disease etc
