• Seigest@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Land before time came out in 88 that’s only 35 years ago. The CDC reccomends colonoscopies at 45.

    It’s close. I must have seen it long after its initial release or while I was very young. But I’m still about a decade off from 45.

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    11 months ago

    Not quite; movie’s only 35 years old. First colonoscopy is recommended at age 45.

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      11 months ago

      To be fair, it also says if you remember this movie. So you’re adding on at minimum 4-5 years before you’re old enough to start remembering this movie at all, much less clearly. Then there’s the wording that says “about time”. To your not quite I instead offer a simple “Quite.”

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        11 months ago

        You’re right, but it doesn’t make it more likely the viewer is older.

        I’m 30 and I remember the movie, but I probably watched it when I was like 10 and the movie was already 15 years old.

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          For what it’s worth, I’m 35 and had a colonoscopy not long ago due to intense abdominal pain that lingered for years and no other test could pick anything up (went through many things throughout the years, mostly being brushed off by the NHS).
          It didn’t detect cancer, however they almost immediately recognised Diverticular Disease which would not show on anything else they did.

          Been on daily laxatives since and I feel physically quite good. Took away years of pain, however the prep is nothing to laugh at. I thought I could handle it, didn’t seem so bad… Man, let me tell you I still think my actual soul got flushed and is floating in the River Thames to this day.

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          11 months ago

          True but, and this is really important, this is a meme.

          Not sure why this instance particularly is so fascinated with taking every meme painfully seriously. It’s a bit idiotic.

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            11 months ago

            No, because I recognize this movie without having seen it in theaters, and am under thirty. The post only says recognize, not “remember seeing in theaters”

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              11 months ago

              Yeah, and its almost like it’s a meme and not meant to be taken super seriously. Like the comments. Something that repeatedly seems to sail about three miles above yalls head.

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            11 months ago

            I can put a 5 year old in front of this movie to watch it for the first time, do they also need a colonoscopy?

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    If you are being recommended colonoscopy as a regular-risk person on the basis of age, your health system is not serving you well. Compared to colonoscopies, regular FOBT or FIT testing has an insignificant risk of complications (bowel perforations, death etc) and is easily conducted at home without the unpleasant “preparation” required of a scope. If done every 2-3 years they are at least as (and maybe more) effective at detecting cancer compared to a scope.

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        @15liam20@lemmy.world shared a great link for FIT. From the same website: FOBT = Fecal Occult Blood Test

        • FIT/FOBT: low-cost, low-barrier, easy and 100% safe test done by the patient themselves at home

        • Colonoscopy: expensive, resource-intensive, onerous, invasive, time-consuming and while usually safe there are complications up to and including death

        Even though an individual colonoscopy is more sensitive than an individual FOBT/FIT, regular use of FOBT/FIT is probably more effective overall on the population level. Unlike a colonoscopy, it is reasonable to repeat the FOBT/FIT every 1-2 years. Screening colonoscopies are usually done at intervals of 10 years. So imagine if you start doing colon cancer screening in 2023. In 2024, you start to develop cancer. If you are screening by colonoscopy, you will have to wait until 2033 to find it, unless you have symptoms in which case you are in trouble! (The whole idea of screening is you don’t wait for symptoms.) Also it is important to remember that in the real world, people hate colonoscopies, health care is not always perfectly accessible, life gets in the way etc so it could be even more delayed. But if you are doing your FIT/FOBT every 1-2 years you will likely detect it fairly quickly. People are much more likely to actually go through with FIT/FOBT testing compared to colonoscopies. Then when you get the positive FIT/FOBT result, you’d be sent for a colonoscopy (or some other equivalent) for the confirming diagnosis.

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          Ah. Thank you very much for this information!

          My doctor briefly mentioned this after I brought up some issues that my coworker had at 38.

          The testing span of 10 years is long, but I have family members who had serious complications from a colonoscopy. I imagine the risk is high enough that 10 years is often enough to catch some measured percentage of the population that develops treatable cancer…

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          Ah. Thank you very much for this information!

          My doctor briefly mentioned this after I brought up some issues that my coworker had at 38.

          The testing span of 10 years is long, but I have family members who had serious complications from a colonoscopy. I imagine the risk is high enough that 10 years is often enough to catch some measured percentage of the population that develops treatable cancer…

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    11 months ago

    This and Watership Down are two of my favourite movies that fit a genre that seems to hardly exist any more. A movie where the journey is the story. Love them. Also I will continue to be in denial about my age thank you very much!