Cancer Prevention: Save your own life, get screened for colorectal cancer, doctors say [Video]

NEW YORK (WABC) — We are seeing an alarming increase in Black and brown patients getting colorectal cancer at younger ages.

In fact, colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of early death in African-American men and women.

“I think, I know, there is a history in the Black community of older men who really don’t trust doctors,” said Louis E. Moore, a cancer survivor for 27 years.

Holding hands, Mr. Moore and his wife (both cancer survivors) listened to their bodies and their doctors.

“I was complaining of stomach cramps and discomfort,” he said.

Twenty-seven years ago Moore, 76, went to his doctor who said he had to get checked out by an expert, a gastroenterologist who then found cancer in Moore’s colon and removed it. The doctor saved his life.

“If I had ignored it, I was about 50 years old. I’m not sure I’d be here today,” he said.

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