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Get Your Colonoscopy!

Bad news and good news—first the bad: A very close friend’s mother was diagnosed with colon cancer. But the very good news is that her disease was caught so early she won’t even need chemotherapy.Why? She had a colonoscopy! Had she not taken this life saving step, a few years down . . . . Continue Reading »

Get Your Colonoscopy!

My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 62 and died at age 65 (in 1984). So my doctor and I agreed that at 58, it was high time I had a colonoscopy. (About seven years ago, I underwent the less “intense” sigmoidoscopy.) Well, this morning the deed was done and a small polyp was . . . . Continue Reading »

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