When a colonoscopy misses cancerous polyps

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The most recent AARP magazine has a heart breaking story by Betty Rollin. Many of us remember her from the 70s when she wrote about her breast cancer "First you Cry." Later she had a another book "Last Wish" how she helped her terminally cancer ill mother ending her life.

Now, at 86, she wrote about her 83 year old husband being diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer.

But he just had a colonoscopy a year and a half ago. "They missed it," said the surgeon.

After he died she found out that even a competent colonoscopist can easily miss a polyp if it is flat or has regressed into the surrounding tissue.

Kinda scary. I am due next year. My previous one, 10 years ago, I was told that i had a "boring colon."

Fingers crossed.