One of our daughters has been dealing with a weight loss issue that took some effort to pin down. It turned out to be related to some lifelong health issues she has had. One could have easily made the argument that this was where they should have started looking in the first place. But it turns out that the tests to nail that down were more involved, and it made sense to check out some other things along the way to getting there.
One of those other things was a colonoscopy. During the procedure they found a pair of polyps which they removed. I've long heard that all colon polyps, if not addressed, will eventually develop into cancer. But the biopsy on the largest of these revealed that it was already in the precancerous stage. In a year, they've told her, she'd have had full-blown colon cancer.
Meanwhile they've also found and begun to address the underlying reason for her weight loss.
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