Some do based on their family history. It has to do with the ability of the medical system, financial and technical, to absorb so many tests with a relatively low meaningful yield. The fact that the age for screening colonoscopy keeps dropping, currently at 45 speaks for increasing incidence at younger ages, likely the result of dysfunctional lifestyle.
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If you have family history of early onset colon cancer, you should get a colonoscopy at 10 years younger than the earliest age at which a family member got colon cancer. Testing in younger people has poor yield and the procedure can have complications. Visit this site for info: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal/basic_info/screening/index.htm
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