Personal experience in my family – Do not put off doing a colonoscopy simply because you are scared. It’s too important!! Trust me on this one!

WASHINGTON — Nearly half the people who need potentially lifesaving checks for the nation’s second-highest cause of cancer deaths – colorectal cancer – miss them, despite years of public efforts to make colon screening as widespread as tests for breast and prostate cancer. The dreaded colonoscopy may get the most attention but a cheap, at-home stool test works, too – and when California health care provider Kaiser Permanente started mailing those test kits to patients due for a colon check, its screening rates jumped well above the national average.

via Millions Skip Test for Colon Cancer – Cancer – FOXNews.com.