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Four insights into why Americans would delay a colonoscopy:
- 34 percent didn’t have symptoms that concerned them
- 33 percent said the preparation process was unpleasant
- 30 percent said they didn’t have a family history of colon cancer
- 30 percent thought they were too young to get screened
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