It's the one common denominator when it comes to turning 50... Your doctor is going to start asking you to get a colonoscopy.

We'll explore this topic that nobody wants to talk about it, but it's so important. We'll go from prescreening to prep to the big day answering all of those questions you didn't want to ask and dispelling any fears you may have.

Ladies if you've skated into your 50s and haven't done this yet, we'll hold your hand and give you a push to go talk to your doctor about scheduling that colonoscopy. We want you to be happy and healthy as you take the stage on your second act.

Explore More:
According to cancer.org — This year colorectal cancer is estimated to claim  53,200 lives.

Colonoscopy Party! Steve Martin & Martin Short talk about a lot as well as their colonoscopy parties with Tom Hanks on Jimmy Kimmel Live (starts at 13:08 minutes in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUqiUFNRAxQ (June 20, 2018).

What's New in Treatment:
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 7, Article number: 104 (2019) — A phase 1 clinical trial that showed that the vaccine was above all safe and it activated immune cells.

Split tolerance permits safe Ad5-GUCY2C-PADRE vaccine-induced T-cell responses in colon cancer patients. https://jitc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40425-019-0576-2

Today's Inspiration:
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.


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Let’s Do 50! — the podcast is intended for information and entertainment purposes only. 

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Theme music, Moving Mountains by Joseph McDade — JosephMcDade.com

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