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Barry Baines

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Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

Yeah, I mean, I can wait.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

I guess, you know, there's so many things, you know, to talk about here, certainly.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

I'd like to just touch on a few of them quickly and then, you know, have, you know, Logan kind of, you know, chime in as well, because we talked about a lot of aspects of things and the idea of, well, what's causing this change to happen?

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

And it's multifactorial.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

I mean, we kind of touched on that.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

But that doesn't mean that there's correlation between some of these things as opposed to say, this is the cause and that's what we have to do.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

But it is, we suspect, it's genetics, it's diet, it's activity, it's your weight, et cetera, et cetera.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

And the next step for that, when we talk about some of the screening pieces is,

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

Not to get into the weeds, but it is the problem with a lot of tests is if it says it's negative, is it's truly negative?

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

And if it says it's positive, is it truly positive?

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

Because even though a 50% increase is incredibly large, and yet in terms of the total population, it's small.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

And one of the issues when you look at public health and individual health is

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

Decisions that you make from a public health perspective compared to, well, if you're a person that has early onset cancer, you want to make sure that you don't get it and what could you do about it.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

Whereas from a public health perspective, people generally don't appreciate cancer.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

that having a false positive test, and then you go through the medical complex of lots of procedures and things, and what rarely gets the spotlight on it is that there are complications from having all of these tests.

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

And if you wind up having to send

Health Chatter
Colorectal Cancer

hundreds of thousands of people through these tests.

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