Everyone knows someone who has had a colonoscopy and heard the stories about the preparations. Wouldn’t you rather have a day ...

Spencer Laird was diagnosed with colon cancer at 26. At 30, he was told it had returned and spread to his lungs, with one tumor the size of a golf ball.

Experts estimate that two-thirds of colorectal cancer deaths could be prevented with routine screenings, nursing instructor Sherrie Page Guyer writes.