Lowering screening age could help spot colon cancer early â and so could talking to your doctor, says advocate
Barry Stein says working with the family doctor â the first direct point of contact in the health-care system â is a better approach than trying to change the national screening age.Â
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Posted: Apr 24, 2021 7:00 AM NT | Last Updated: April 24
Stephanie Budgell heads out for a run on her lunch break. She s feeling good now, but just finished a year of intense treatments for Stage 4 colorectal cancer. (Colleen Connors/CBC)
Stephanie Budgell does not want others to go through her experience of a Stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis, and is calling on health authorities to lower the age for screening. I want family doctors to see that it s not an old man s disease anymore, said Budgell, 36, who lives in Pasadena on Newfoundland s west coast, was diagnosed in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.