Title: Pat’s story
“I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer about four years ago and I’d had a few gastrointestinal,
stomach bug, flu type symptoms, which were about the same time that I would normally
have had my annual physical.
The main symptom that I had that told me that there might be something wrong was
that I lost a lot of weight in a very short period of time. I lost 18 pounds in
about six weeks. And when I saw my doctor for my annual physical my blood work was
a little out of line. In fact, so far out of line that he ordered a colonoscopy.”