Cancer and Men

Your Wake-Up Call

“Hopefully, my heartbreak is your wake-up call,” says Terrence Howard in this video about losing his mother to colon cancer.

“Both my father and grandfather died of colon cancer—that’s what motivates me to get screened,” says David.

“My father did not get screened. It actually wasn’t until he had some symptoms that he went to the doctor and they found the cancer. Unfortunately, at that point it had already spread.

“I started getting screened right around when I turned 50, and I’ve had them regularly ever since,” he says. “The preparation is unpleasant, but the procedure itself is nothing.

“If they can catch [cancer] early, before it becomes a problem, why not get screened?”