What Next TBD: Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The age when you need to start being screened for cancers may need to be updated, as rates among younger people are on the rise. New testing methods could make the process a lot easier than, say, a colonoscopy - but they’re not perfect. Guest: Dylan Scott, senior correspondent and editor for Vox. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Public.com+Public Investing: All investing involves risk. Brokerage services for US listed securities, options and bonds in a self-directed brokerage account are offered by Public Investing, member FINRA & SIPC. Not investment advice. Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank.Cryptocurrency trading services are offered by Bakkt Crypto Solutions, LLC (NMLS ID 1828849), which is licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the NYSDFS. Cryptocurrency is highly speculative, involves a high degree of risk, and has the potential for loss of the entire amount of an investment. Cryptocurrency holdings are not protected by the FDIC or SIPC. . See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dylan Scott is a great health care reporter for Vox. I'm sure you've read his
0:09.9	work on policy and global health. It's a lot of truly outstanding journalism, which is why I felt
0:16.4	a little bad about how I began this interview.
0:19.4	Well, gosh, now you're putting me on the spot.
0:23.0	I wonder if you could walk us through how, um, how colonoscopy works, and guess also again sorry how the prep works.
0:38.0	So yeah if you need to get a colonoscopy either because it's recommended at your age starting at age 45 most of us are supposed to get
0:46.6	colonoscopies or if you've you know noticed something in your bowel movements that is
0:52.0	concerning the the in your bowel movements that is concerning.
0:53.0	The process it is kind of a big burden
0:58.0	as people who have gotten one before probably know.
1:01.0	You have to, you know, kind of go on a cleansing diet for a couple of days
1:05.8	beforehand. They don't want anything in your GI tract or as little as possible.
1:12.0	Then you might have to drink an oral laxative.
1:15.0	Again, super unfun.
1:18.0	Then you go to a hospital or clinic.
1:21.0	You get put under a doctor, you know, takes an instrument, a
1:26.0	telescope basically that they insert into your colon and they look around for
1:31.7	signs of any unnatural growth that might either be pre-cancerous and later develop into cancer or is already a cancer
1:40.4	So yeah, it's not not the most pleasant experience according to
1:45.3	anyone I've ever known who's had one. And this is the traditional screening
1:50.0	method for colorectal cancer, right? Correct, yes.
1:53.8	And certainly the most accurate that we have right now.
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