OT - Bowel Cancer Test

[Graham.]

Did mine last week, the bottle (glass tube) has some liquid reagent in it. got the result a few days later, negative thank God.

[John]

I have recently been sent a kit for a bowel cancer test. The previous one was a bit unpleasant and required several days of samples to be spread onto a card.

The latest is so simple - one test only - a small sort of probe that is put into a bottle and sent off.

Please don't be deterred.

[Andy Burns]

The "up" preparation they use here only takes an hour to do the job, according to their leaflet

[Clive Arthur]

Deterred is in the bottle, Shirley?

[Scott]

Bizarre. I received one about five minutes ago!

[T i m]

The first one I was given was called 'Fleet' I think and that was very (and very quickly) effective. I'd suggest being no more than 5 paces from the toilet after taking it. ;-)

On a later repeat of the process they gave me something less 'powerful', slower acting but equally effective (they said).

Cheers, T i m

[Tim+]

That?ll be because they?re only looking at your lower bowel/rectum by proctoscopy rather than full colonoscopy. Quicker and easier to do and as more bowel cancers occur there rather than higher up they can ?catch? more cancers.

Tim

[whisky-dave]

Is it an anal probe like the aliens use ;-)

[Tim Lamb]

I don't think they bother when you get to my age.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

That sounds marvellous. The one for blind people was awful involving plastic bags sealable pots and lots of fiddling about in plastic gloves. The problem with the old one was that we could not see to smear it on the bits without touching them, but the huge pots we ended up with were ridiculous, one could not exactly put it into a pillar box, as it had to have bio hazard stickers and all sorts. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

They normally only do that after a positive test to see if you have any polyps or something. I also had a barium Meal Enema. That was extremely funny since they handed me a card for body positions even though standing there with a whit cane , clearly blind. The lady had to don her lead apron and try to describe the positions and physically arrange my body. It was difficult not to get the giggles.

Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

No one day of pixolax. One of the best inventions man has made in my opinion. Really does clean out the plumbing down there. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

Oh my problem is from the top. I can do the wind pipe and airways camera, but as soon as they try to go down the other tube I gag and throw up. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

Well around half a day or so I'd say. The other issue if they use barium meal is that your stools are white and grey for many days, but I don't care cos I don't see em!

Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

I guess it depends on how much has to be liquidised. Apparently this is how it works. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

I was told it used an auto matic screening method using some kind of substance that glows in the presence of certain cells.

That is a low number, really I always do it although it means the big sample kit as its not that hard too do. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

I was told it used an auto matic screening method using some kind of substance that glows in the presence of certain cells.

That is a low number, really I always do it although it means the big sample kit as its not that hard too do. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2]

I was told it used an auto matic screening method using some kind of substance that glows in the presence of certain cells.

That is a low number, really I always do it although it means the big sample kit as its not that hard too do. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa 2)]

I was told that if a family has a record of Bowelcancer they now often call in other members to look for the precancerous polyps. If they are found they remove them. Brian

[Andy Burns]

This is a self-administered enema, not sure what's in it ...