[dkural]

This article, in the world as it exists right now, is wrong about colon cancer. Anyone reading this of a certain age: get that colonoscopy, and those polyps removed. Snip it in the bud. That's the great thing about a colonoscopies - all-in-one screening + treatment.

Evidence: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1301969

Large prospective cohorts (Nurses’ Health Study + Health Professionals Follow-Up Study) with long follow-up - screening colonoscopy was associated with a 68% lower risk of death from colorectal cancer overall (multivariable HR ≈ 0.32, 95% CI 0.24–0.45) and showed significant reduction for proximal colon mortality as well (HR ≈ 0.47, 95% CI 0.29–0.76).

[travisjungroth]

> For colon cancer, the rates from the SEER data are are 91%, 74%, and 16%.

This is the only claim the article makes directly about colon cancer. Otherwise, it's saying that early detection being beneficial isn't supported by survival rates alone.

[nyeah]

"Otherwise, it's saying that early detection being beneficial isn't supported by survival rates alone."

That claim may be obvious to everybody except me. Anyway it turns out to be true.