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The other disease story to be covered was on colon cancer as NBC's Robert Bazell went over American Cancer Society guidelines about screening using colonoscopies and other scans. "They acknowledge that not everyone has the insurance or money to pay for them," Bazell observed. For the uninsured, his best tip was to test for blood in one's stool. Interestingly, Bazell did not cover the colonoscopy story yesterday that the in-house physicians on the two rival newscasts mentioned. ABC's Timothy Johnson (embargoed link) and CBS' Jon LaPook both covered a Journal of the American Medical Association study contrasting the cancer danger from rounded polyps and flat lesions. NBC anchor Brian Williams asked Bazell about NBC's omission. The research was for the benefit of physicians, Bazell shrugged: "There is no public health message in this."
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