Hi, my name is Haydn Bechthold and I’m a 22-year-old who is currently fighting stage III colorectal cancer. Prior to my diagnosis I was pursuing a career in professional soccer while I continued my post-graduate studies. In my soccer career so far, I’ve had the chance to play for soccer ...
In 2022, I was 41 years old, working and raising a young family with my wife, Jasmine. My son was 8, my daughter 5. We were a happy, healthy family, making travel plans for the summer like everyone else. That spring, I began having symptoms of a gastrointestinal problem and ...
Ryan and I were married in 2016 in the Canadian Rockies, where we had just moved to start living our dream life together in the mountains. That dream came to a quick and abrupt end just a year later when Ryan was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. As an ...
My brother Greg was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of colorectal cancer at 47 and he died one year later. It was stage 4 when he was diagnosed and the news went from bad to worse with every appointment and treatment. I lost my only sibling. I was ...
At Colorectal Cancer Canada, we are proud to launch a new national advocacy campaign through our Never Too Young (N2Y) initiative. Our mission is clear: we are urging provincial and territorial health ministries across the country to lower the colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 for average-risk Canadians. ...
I’m living proof that a colonoscopy is more than just an awkward day with a camera—it can save your life. In September 2024, I had zero symptoms when I walked into a screening clinic. My wife and friends had been urging me to get that appointment ever since I’d turned ...
As a young wife and mother of 3, Melissa faced unique challenges as she navigated her CRC diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
Meet Anne Perry, founder of "Test for Toby." As a caregiver to her husband during his battle with colorectal cancer, Anne turned her experiences into a mission for early detection and support and became an inspirational force behind the Shelburne, Ontario edition of Push For Your Tush. In this video, ...
Montreal, 2019, Christmas Eve, 11 pm: I got a call from the hospital where my mother was dying of heart failure. I, her only child, told to come soon. Rushed, I slipped on the ice in the parking lot. Bad fall, hobbled to ER thinking I suffered a fracture. The ...
I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2020. It was a fluke that I was diagnosed when I was 75 and the surgeon at Arnprior Hospital told me I did not require a colonoscopy or poop test. Fortunately when the new FIT came in they automatically sent me ...
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