Dear Nancy, Please accept my deepest condolences on the death of your husband. This must be a terribly stressful time for you. Please be assured of my prayers on his and your behalf. Being a GI nurse, I cannot agree with you more. Colon cancer is a very survivable form of cancer and relatively easily treated if caught early. Unfortunately, once the classic warning signs appear, it is often far-advance. Everyone should have a screening colonoscopy at age fifty and periodically after that depending on the results. Those who have a family history of colon ca or polyps should start even earlier. Again, I am so very sorry to hear of your loss. God bless all of you. Jim >Nancy in Oregon and her 19 fuzzies who are wondering where the big guy >is that tickled them and yelled "DAMN" when they bit his big toe Jim Morgan, Catholic Confederate residing in the Federal Satrapy of Ohio "He came to pay a debt He didn't owe because we owed a debt we couldn't pay." [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML 6842]