Bro I am 24. I think I’m okay for a lil bit
Land before time came out in 88 that’s only 35 years ago. The CDC reccomends colonoscopies at 45.
It’s close. I must have seen it long after its initial release or while I was very young. But I’m still about a decade off from 45.
You don’t really start to retain memories until after 5 as your brain basically rewires itself at that point. So if you “remember” it (from its debut), you’re probably closer to 40.
I likley just rented the vhs from blockbuster because it had dinosaurs on it
It sure as hell did have dinosaurs
You don’t really start to retain memories until after 5 as your brain basically rewires itself after that.
I call bullsh*t on that. I have many memories from before age 5, and one from as young as 14 months. I may be a statistical outlier with that last bit, but I can’t believe that our brains don’t save any memories from before we were 5.
Feel free to think what you want, but that what the current research suggests.
The Wikipedia page on childhood amnesia actually has some pretty good references on this linked. Humans are also really good at creating and modifying memories to implant new ones or change existing ones.
If you are being recommended colonoscopy as a regular-risk person on the basis of age, your health system is not serving you well. Compared to colonoscopies, regular FOBT or FIT testing has an insignificant risk of complications (bowel perforations, death etc) and is easily conducted at home without the unpleasant “preparation” required of a scope. If done every 2-3 years they are at least as (and maybe more) effective at detecting cancer compared to a scope.
What is FOBT and FIT testing?
@15liam20@lemmy.world shared a great link for FIT. From the same website: FOBT = Fecal Occult Blood Test
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FIT/FOBT: low-cost, low-barrier, easy and 100% safe test done by the patient themselves at home
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Colonoscopy: expensive, resource-intensive, onerous, invasive, time-consuming and while usually safe there are complications up to and including death
Even though an individual colonoscopy is more sensitive than an individual FOBT/FIT, regular use of FOBT/FIT is probably more effective overall on the population level. Unlike a colonoscopy, it is reasonable to repeat the FOBT/FIT every 1-2 years. Screening colonoscopies are usually done at intervals of 10 years. So imagine if you start doing colon cancer screening in 2023. In 2024, you start to develop cancer. If you are screening by colonoscopy, you will have to wait until 2033 to find it, unless you have symptoms in which case you are in trouble! (The whole idea of screening is you don’t wait for symptoms.) Also it is important to remember that in the real world, people hate colonoscopies, health care is not always perfectly accessible, life gets in the way etc so it could be even more delayed. But if you are doing your FIT/FOBT every 1-2 years you will likely detect it fairly quickly. People are much more likely to actually go through with FIT/FOBT testing compared to colonoscopies. Then when you get the positive FIT/FOBT result, you’d be sent for a colonoscopy (or some other equivalent) for the confirming diagnosis.
Ah. Thank you very much for this information!
My doctor briefly mentioned this after I brought up some issues that my coworker had at 38.
The testing span of 10 years is long, but I have family members who had serious complications from a colonoscopy. I imagine the risk is high enough that 10 years is often enough to catch some measured percentage of the population that develops treatable cancer…
Ah. Thank you very much for this information!
My doctor briefly mentioned this after I brought up some issues that my coworker had at 38.
The testing span of 10 years is long, but I have family members who had serious complications from a colonoscopy. I imagine the risk is high enough that 10 years is often enough to catch some measured percentage of the population that develops treatable cancer…
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Fecal immunochemical test
https://www.ccalliance.org/screening-prevention/screening-methods/fecal-immunochemical-test
Thank you!
Reddit moment
Yup, because children never watch old movies.
Yep, because memes must always be taken seriously
As Littlefoot says, “How fucking dare you.”
Jokes on you. Bloody TP forced one of those several years ago already. Rookies.
Just made it this year
Did anyone else think those leaves looked tasty as fuck when you were a kid?
Legalize tree stars.
Yep Yep Yep!
Now I’m sad again :(
Don’t look up what happened to her VA. :(
I’m not sure I know?
Yup yup!
Ha! I’ve had at least 4
Did you enjoy it?
The early movies in the series and the cartoon network show were pretty good. But then they just kept pumping out more and more movies, with widely varying degrees of quality. Either way, the first one was a masterpiece.
But I’m only 26!