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The procedure known as colonoscopy is today, as a prevention of colorectal cancer, part of a multi-million industry.
Each year more than 14 million perfectly healthy individuals aged 50 and over undergo this invasive procedure to detect colorectal cancer (or precancerous polyps). But is it really effective?
Painful and dangerous procedure
In reality, however, it is much more dangerous – and potentially more deadly – than doctors would like to admit.
According to a report from Annals of Internal Medicine on colonoscopies, an estimated 70,000 people will be injured or killed each year in connection with this procedure (0.5% of those examined).
This figure is 22% higher than the annual number of deaths from colorectal cancer itself – the very disease the procedure is meant to prevent.
According to the Telemark Polyp Study I colonoscopies actually increase mortality by 57%. For every person a colonoscopy saves, there are 56 people suffering serious injuries (including possible death) caused by the colonoscopy.
A person can live with colorectal cancer for decades. But if a doctor makes a hole in your intestine, you can die very quickly, within days or even hours.
It is very easily possible and clinically proven that during this examination you can become infected with the following diseases (as a result of poor instrument sterilization):
- HPV (human papillomavirus)
- HIV
- mycobacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- bacteria Helicobacterium pylori
- hepatitis B and C
- salmonella
- bacteria Pseudomonas a aeruginosa
- influenza viruses
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
There is also a risk of infection from many other common bacteria, for example E.Coli O157: H7.
Colonoscopy is NOT cancer prevention
According to the American Cancer Society, until 2009 “… there are no randomized controlled trials to assess colonoscopy in terms of reducing the incidence or mortality of colorectal cancer”.
In a 2006 New York Times article it says:
“In patients in all studies at least one adenoma was found by colonoscopy, but they did not have cancer.
However, it developed in them over the following few years at the same rate that would be expected in the general population without screening.”
Another research study published in 2006 concluded that in the patients studied in all the trials colorectal cancer developed in the following few years “at the same rate that would be expected in the general population without screening”, even though all the polyps found had been removed.
Colonoscopy is a scam
It is a scam intended to enrich the pharmaceutical industry and doctors.
Associations of doctors conspired to make colonoscopy a method of preventive care, even though it is an unnecessary invasive procedure. We discuss this topic further in this article as well.
As for virtual colonoscopy (CT colonography), the radiation levels are similar to exposure from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, although, as the National Cancer Institute states: “It is not yet known whether virtual colonoscopy can reduce the number of deaths from colorectal cancer.”
An equally effective non-invasive test is known as the fecal immunochemical test.
