They found cancer. No family history, no increased risk. I had surgery to remove about a foot of my colon and nothing more. It was caught early.
If I would have waited for symptoms, I likely would not be here today, or if I was, it would have been through fighting for my life with chemo and radiation.
If you wait for symptoms, that only show up in later stages of colon cancer, then you have got trouble.
About 1 in 20 will get colon or rectal cancer.
It is the second most deadly cancer.
It starts with pre-cancerous polyps that take 10 years to grow into cancer. You get them snipped out before they turn to cancer or in my case you find cancer before it has a chance to grow and cause problems.
Colon cancer might be the most preventable cancer out there even though its the second deadliest.
I have colonoscopy #5 coming up. Doesn't bother me one bit.