{"id":23044,"date":"2022-10-25T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=23044"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:32:29","slug":"new-study-examines-the-effectiveness-of-colonoscopies-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=23044","title":{"rendered":"New study examines the effectiveness of colonoscopies | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/09\/health\/colonoscopy-cancer-death-study\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/170807180811-colorectal-cancer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A &#8220;landmark&#8221; study suggests the benefits of colonoscopies for cancer screening may be overestimated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/09\/health\/colonoscopy-cancer-death-study\/index.html\">New study examines the effectiveness of colonoscopies | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Less than half of people invited to get a colonoscopy in the study \u2013 just 42% \u2013 actually got one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the study authors restricted the results to the people who actually received colonoscopies \u2013 about 12,000 out of the more than 28,000 who were invited to do so \u2013 the procedure was found to be more effective. It reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by 31% and cut the risk of dying of that cancer by 50%.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;landmark&#8221; study suggests the benefits of colonoscopies for cancer screening may&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[300,48,266],"class_list":["post-23044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-butts","tag-health","tag-maybe-good","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}