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Posted by ZeroGravitas 3 hours ago

Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging(www.hankgreen.com)
74 points | 67 commentspage 2
gwbas1c 3 hours ago|
Years ago, I went to a show where Hank Green sang a song about his IBS. I still chuckle at the lyric about rerouting his bowel to a spigot.

That being said, I wish this was a normal page that scrolled. The click click click just breaks the web.

elric 3 hours ago||
If anyone here is up for disrupting the medical field: please come up with a colonoscopy-equivalent with a less awful prep experience.
hansvm 3 hours ago||
I think they could do pretty well just not adding bubble gum or whatever nasty flavors the prep has. Sure it'll still be unpleasant and salty, but burping up that nonsense all day really doesn't make it better.
nikole9696 1 hour ago|||
This may be regional but I just had pills. It was fine. My first one had that terrible salty liquid and I cannot stand the salt. I had a very hard time with it, despite adding some flavoring. I just can't drink salt water. So my second one I got pills and it was miles and miles easier. Now the hardest part is fasting for a day.
yodsanklai 1 hour ago|||
I really didn't mind the prep experience. I can't say it was pleasant, but not a big deal. For me the worst part is the risk of perforation: it's rare but adds risk to the procedure.
brocha 2 hours ago|||
When I got my second, I had a bidet and it made a huge difference. That and a bit of vaseline to prevent too much irritation. It's an uncomfortable process so taking every win you can saves your sanity
seattle_spring 3 hours ago||
By far the worst part. By far.

Though having to push out a huge fart at the request of the nurse while they stare at you when you wake up is a close 2nd.

inglor_cz 2 hours ago||
Even in Czechia, where the combination of traditional "heavy" food and, probably, some sort of genetic burden (people with Czech ancestry tend to suffer from colorectal cancers even if they live in regions with very different diets) used to make us the record holders, mortality has gone significantly down.

Humanity seems to be getting this particular snake in its grip.

anigbrowl 3 hours ago||
I stopped after the 4th click, I found it irritating to have to click to get 1 or 2 sentences at a time. This would have been just fine as a short article, making it interactive annoyed me more than the revealed content informed.
GaryBluto 3 hours ago||
Made even more annoying by the "next page" button constantly moving with the page height.
plopz 3 hours ago||
Very annoying UX, I found it felt like it was breaking continuity and making the ideas on each page disjointed.
Der_Einzige 3 hours ago||
My layman's thoughts are it has something to do with young people spending way too much time on the toilet sitting doomscrolling on their phones. (also yes to microplastics and endocrine disruptiors)

Also, hope that bidets may help with it in some way? Bidets supposedly reduce hemorrhoids.

NedF 3 hours ago||
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autoexec 3 hours ago||
It's rare to see a website that fails to display anything without JS being enabled that also has such nice looking code. I'm both disappointed and impressed! Reading between the script tags was enough to get the idea at least
atleastoptimal 3 hours ago||
Very effective way of conveying information.

I think a major factor is the increase in microplastics in our diets.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18777...

SpaceManNabs 3 hours ago|
i disagree. content is great. hitting back button messes stuff up for me. a long form article is preferred for me but maybe this is better for people used to swiping.
nubinetwork 3 hours ago|
Strange, because I've heard the exact opposite...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/colorectal-cancer-keeps-risin...

stevenjgarner 3 hours ago||
That is EXACTLY what the post is saying:

> But that progress belongs almost entirely to people 50 and over. For people under 50, both incidence and mortality have been climbing. CRC is now the #1 cancer killer in men under 50.

You need to go to the 2nd screen "Split by age group"

nubinetwork 1 hour ago||
Maybe their website sucks and all I saw was 2 graphs
pcorsaro 3 hours ago||
You didn't actually click and read anything. Hank's page is saying exactly what the article you linked is saying. CRC is on the rise in young people. I'm not sure why the moderators changed the title of this post. It should be "Something is Going on with Colorectal Cancer."