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Dear Doctors: I'm a 72-year-old man, and I was supposed to get a colonoscopy last year. I was surprised when my insurance company sent me an at-home kit to do a colon cancer screening. It was a lot easier than a colonoscopy, but my question is, can it be accurate?
Dear Reader: The at-home test kit that you received in the mail is known as a fecal immunochemical test, or FIT.
As with a…