I was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 34. It all started with me having painful bowel spasms and a pain in my right side. I ended up…
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I was 43 when I started getting more tired than usual and losing weight. This didn’t raise any red flags to me though, as a mother of two teenage daughters….
My story begins when I lost my grandmother. I was 12 years old and all I knew was that she had some form of cancer. We spent some time together…
I went in for my first colonoscopy on April 1, 2021. The only preventative test I never wanted to have in my lifetime. I went in two years before the…
Esteban Garcia enjoyed a gratifying summer, playing tennis three to four times a week, and loving the company of his family and friends. This summer has been especially important for…
My sister Melanie was 19 years old when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune disease that affects your digestive tract. This diagnosis made her life already hard to…
I celebrated my 53rd birthday on March 22, 2022. It’s a day I wasn’t expecting to see. There’s a reason our oncologists and surgeons don’t tell us everything about our…
To say a stage III colorectal cancer diagnosis at age 45 is a “shock” is a massive understatement. This revelation is even bigger when you believe you’re in excellent health…
In early 2020, Andy Vazquez’ father, Rafael, was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. He hadn’t been feeling well and it was hard for him to get into his PCP…
At age 59 I decided to have a colonoscopy. Like an episode of the Twilight Zone, it was much to my surprise when my doctor came and told me that…