5-Minute Colon Cancer Test Could Save Thousands Wednesday, April 28, 2010 
A five-minute colon cancer test could reduce the number of deaths from the disease by about 40 percent, a new study says.
British researchers followed more than 170,000 people for about 11 years. Of those, more than 40,000 had a "flexi-scope" test, an exam that removes polyps, small growths that could become cancerous.
The test involves having a pen-sized tube inserted into the colon so doctors can identify and remove small polyps. Researchers used the test on people in their 50s. In the U.K., government-funded colon cancer screening doesn't start until age 60.
-I'll take a pen-sized tube over docs fingers in the 2-hole any day of the week.
-Which makes me wonder...do gay men actually like their colon screening? Maybe they would prefer docs fingers over the smaller tube. I wonder if they look at their colon screening the same way hetero men look at going to a sperm bank.
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