Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer
Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer
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Researchers Find Strange Link Between Marathon Running and Cancer
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Haha take that healthy people!
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Heh. Running is bad for you. Not running is bad for you.
Interesting article though. 15% of marathon runners having anomalies vs ~1.5% is a big variance.
Time to invent the ass bra - an inflatable insertable colon suspension device. Although the article seems to say it's altered blood flow that causes the issue rather than implying it's a physical movement issue.
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I didn't see any comments so I looked around and found the comments button and they still didn't come up, must be getting blocked by my ad blocker or something. Strange.
That said.. as someone who used to run 5-10 miles a day and started getting blood in my stool around 18-20, I always just assumed they were hemroids from elongated motorcycle rides and stress and just ignored them. I would have never thought to question the difference between them and polyps.
Welp, guess I'll find out in my 40s when I go for a colonoscopy.
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Let me just say this... you don't HAVE to wait. Visible blood in the stool means you likely have more you can't see. Speaking from experience.
Docs couldn't figure out where the anemia was coming from so sent me in for the combo Endoscopy/Colonoscopy.
17 polyps. SEVENTEEN. Doc tells me anything more than 5 is abnormal, and anything bigger than 5mm is abnormal. 1 was 20mm, another was 30mm.
So, yeah, if you have symptoms, don't sleep on this.
Yes, the prep absolutely sucks. You drink a gallon of what tastes like fake saltwater one day, 1/2 a gallon the next day, then the remaining 1/2 the morning of your appointment.
You know that fake salt made with potassium instead of sodium? Tastes like that.
But the procedure is cake. Lights out, wake up, it's done.
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N = 100 - there may be some signal there, BUT much larger numbers would be needed to confirm.
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Isn't it a thing where cancer survivors or family of cancer survivors run marathons?
So wouldn't it make sense that a population that's more prone to cancer, running marathons, would be more prone to cancerous anomalies than the general public?