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A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found smoking, as well as drinking, caused, on average, an earlier onset of colon cancer by more than five years!

Tina just turned 50, and a year ago, got her first colonoscopy to screen for colon cancer.

50 is the recommended age to be first screened.

But because of Tina’s cigarette habit alone, should she have started even earlier?

The problem is there is no specific recommendation as to when a smoker or a drinker for that matter should get screened with colonoscopy is it 35, 40, 45 at this point it is almost as if common sense dictates.

Dr.

Michael Barth, a gastroenterologist in Wantagh, NY, says, “It doesn’t say what age here, the guidelines were written before these patients were looked at, so they looked at over a 160,000 patients over ten years with colon cancer and they found that patients who smoked and drank had colon cancer at a younger age so the recommendations would be at least I would tell my patients if you smoke or drink alcohol you should get screened at an earlier age and I would give them the information from this article and I would let them make the decision.” The drinking finding was even less...

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