Guest guest Posted September 19, 2005 Report Share Posted September 19, 2005 Hi Don , with a family history of cancer especially colon cancer , its never to early to get checked. My husband was only 33yrs old last Sept when he was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer , his ONLY symptom was lower left side abdominal pain , started off as just a cramp would last a few min then go away , started happening more often and lasting longer, this went on for 5 months with the doctors treating it as everything but colon cancer . You see his mom only had POLYPS non cancerous ( yea now we know better ) They say you should get checked 10yrs before your parent was diagnosed ( or polyp non cancerous found ) Our own children have to be checked before they are 23yrs old The sooner you can get checked the better is my opinion , if they had checked Joe when he first started having symptoms , it wouldnt have been stage 4 , he had non polyp colon cancer fast growing and docs said he had it for only about 6months total when they did find it . He is doing well now but its been one hell of a long year Get checked now Deb Don Kitchen donkitchen@...> wrote: Hi all. I'm a 28 year old male with a family history of cancer. My mom was recently diagnosed with colon cancer at age 49. Her father had prostate cancer, her mother breast, her brother melanoma and her brother's daughter the same (melanoma). I'm wondering when I should get checked out for my first colonscopy? I am in good health and don't show any negative symptoms, other than just my family history. Is the history generally enough of a reason for my doctor to check me out? I may be over reacting but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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