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Anesthesiologist but you can be put to sleep. i want to talk about cologuard. in between those colonoscopies, whether every five years or ten years or three years, if we find polyps, it's every three years, in between we do something called fecal blood. we look for blood in your stool. >> that's the little tab thing the doctor gives you that you leave on the shelf and never actually do. >> you should do it because you can bring it in to your next doctor's visit, you can mail it into the lab, we can do it with testing that's better than the usual way. but i believe, like david is saying, i thin...

Blood mixed in the stool is very -- >> you know, something the prep isn't that bad. they have some orange drink that wasn't bad at all. >> eric -- >> i believe you. >> we've gotten away from using something because of complications. they're using go lightly or new lightly which you have to drink the phospha soda. i do want to take a slightly different view than david. i don't think we're ready to say cologuard. i love the premise of this. we almost have no other situation where we literally can look at your colon directly with a scope and tell you, hey, there's a polyp here. you can't find a p...

Getting to the point where we're seeing the abnormal dna that tumors make. colon cancer makes a specific signature of abnormal dna. we can find it on this stool test. >> can i go now, ask my doctor, get colo guard? >> if he has access to it, knows a pharmacy that has it, it is absolutely on the market. >> but i get it from you, you take it home and use it at home? >> yes. but let me just make a comment. this is not to replace standard of care which is colonoscopy and you are encouraged to go for colonoscopy first. the reason why this works wrel well is it is less invasive, 92% sensitive based ...

Getting to the point where we're seeing the abnormal dna that tumors make. colon cancer makes a specific signature of abnormal dna. we can find it on this stool test. >> can i go now, ask my doctor, get colo guard? >> if he has access to it, knows a pharmacy that has it, it is absolutely on the market. >> but i get it from you, you take it home and use it at home? >> yes. but let me just make a comment. this is not to replace standard of care which is colonoscopy and you are encouraged to go for colonoscopy first. the reason why this works wrel well is it is less invasive, 92% sensitive based ...

I can't stress it enough, get a colonoscopy. people say they don't want to do it, but it is so important. it's such an avoidable disease. >> yes, 140,000 americans diagnosed with colon cancer every year, 50,000 die from this. you're right. it's the second leading cause of cancer deaths. this new dna-based colon screening test that just is coming in under approval by fda is extremely important. exact science corp is the name. a lot of people always ask -- the actual test will be called colo-guard. it's based on a stool test. if there's any there's any cancer, it will shed some cells that will g...