Too late

DNA Test May Speed Colon Cancer Diagnosis

Sample paragraph from the article linked above, from yesterday's Times:

Colorectal cancers tend to grow slowly and are easily removed if caught early. But many people over 50 do not comply with the recommendation to have a colonoscopy — a time-consuming procedure in which a tube is threaded up the intestine — and even colonoscopies do not catch everything. Colorectal cancer has become the second most common cancer in the United States; each year it causes more than 50,000 deaths and costs about $14 billion to treat.

Yeah: EVEN COLONOSCOPIES DO NOT CATCH EVERYTHING.  Glad they remembered to point that out, so I didn't have to go on a rampage, the way I want to every time I hear PSAs about colonoscopies that make it sound like all you have to do is have them and you're guaranteed to be safe.  There was one of those that would appear during breaks in programs we'd watch on my computer when Jerry was too weak and tired to get out of bed this spring - a PSA telling people they could catch colon cancers early through colonoscopy.  It made both of us so angry - even though we both knew it was true - often.  But not always.  Not always.  And they never tell you that.

I hope this new test does catch colon cancers early and make them less deadly (not deadly at all would be fine).  But it's too late.  Way too late.