February 11, 2015
by Barbara Minton
(AlignLife.com) Every year more than 14 million healthy Americans follow the dictate of the medical establish to have a colonoscopy. Of this number, an estimated 70,000 are killed or seriously injured by colonoscopy related complications, according to statistics published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. But here is the real shocker – that 70,000 is a larger number (by 22%) than the total number of people who die from colon cancer!
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Other interesting facts about colonoscopy include:
*According to an April 21, 2014 release from the National Institutes of Health, no large clinical trials have been completed to support the need for colonoscopy screening. The American Cancer Society is in agreement with this statement.
*Radiation exposure from one colonoscopy increases the lifetime risk of cancer by 20%. Since you are supposed to get your first colonoscopy at least by age 50 and then in five year increments, by the time you reach the age of 70 your cancer risk will be 100%.
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