Young adults in the United States are being diagnosed with more colorectal cancer today than years ago despite a decline that started in the mid-1980s.
Screening played a large role in colorectal cancer prevention and detection, which helped lower the numbers. Colonoscopies can detect polyps, overgrowth of tissue, that can become cancerous. If they’re detected and removed through colonoscopy, that’s one less chance of developing the cancer. And, if colorectal cancer does occur, if it’s detected early enough, colorectal cancer has 90% cure rate. But, this is really only for people over 50 years old as regular colon screenings aren’t usually …read more

I’m scared of cancer.
My mother was diagnosed with Colon Cancer several days after her 40th birthday. She had seen the signs of it on her actual birthday, May 9; the day before Mother’s Day and also the day before her father passed away. Can you imagine that? She had one child in middle school, one in second grade, and one in preschool and I remember her holding her composure so well. As children we had no idea she was internally struggling with the possibility of Cancer while also grieving her father’s death. And all in a weekend where we should …read more