March is colon cancer awareness month. I’d deserve to have my board certification in Gastroenterology revoked if I didn’t write about colon cancer this month. Like any ‘disease awareness month,’ many of you are going to come across articles dealing with colon cancer statistics and colon cancer symptoms. I’m going to take a more a more personal approach and share a few of my experiences with colon cancer as a gastroenterologist over a series of posts throughout the month. The goal is to convey why I think colon cancer awareness is critical. In this post, I want to share a story that involved me explaining what I do as a gastroenterologist to a class of high school kids.
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