(The Best Years in Life) Every year more than 14 million healthy Americans follow the dictate of the medical establish to have a colonoscopy. Of this number, an estimated 70,000 are killed or seriously injured by colonoscopy related complications, according to statistics published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. But here is the real shocker - that 70,000 is a larger number (by 22%) than the total number of people who die from colon cancer in the first place! Read More.