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A 39-year-old fitness coach mistook her colon cancer symptoms for IBS

From a very young age, Danni Duncan struggled with IBS symptoms.”I remember being maybe around 5 or 6 and really being in so much pain, literally on my hands and knees in the bathroom,” Duncan, 40, told Business Insider. She was put on elimination diets throughout primary school and diagnosed…

A 39-year-old man saw blood in his poop. He had colon cancer.

After he saw blood in the toilet bowl maybe half a dozen times over the course of a few weeks, Russ Read-Barrow visited the doctor.He didn’t have any other symptoms, but something felt off, he told Business Insider. “I was like, ‘Oh, this doesn’t seem right,'” he said.Read-Barrow was 39…