Sep 6, 2008 4:22 pm US/Mountain
Man Credits Cancer Screening For Saving His Life
DENVER (CBS4) ―
Doctors always stress to patients the importance of cancer screenings, which is something one local man says saved his life.
Brian Eberle love running.
"I started running like nine or ten years ago and I just kind of got hooked on it," Eberle said.
A simple screening four years ago meant that Eberle can run today instead of battling cancer.
"If I hadn't gone in and had the colonoscopy, I literally could have been having colon cancer today," he said.
The colonoscopy revealed several pre-cancerous polyps.
"I was surprised. I didn't have any idea," he said. "Like I say, there was no family history of any kind."
A colonoscopy allows doctors to find the polyps and remove them immediately.
"The important thing is that colon cancer doesn't really come from the colon. It comes from polyps that grow in the colon," said Dr. Tim Byers from the University of Colorado Cancer Center. "Finding and removing polyps can prevent colon cancer, so we're preventing a lot of colon cancers here in Colorado."
Eberle feels lucky to be healthy and happy and able to continue to run.
"I tell all my friends and family that they ought to go in, no question about it, because it's the easiest way to detect and prevent colon cancer," Eberle said.
(© MMIX CBS Television Stations, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
316,000 Bongs Disguised As Ornaments
Obama Sculpture Does A Cool Trick
Slideshow: Colorado's Weirdest House
Stumble It!
Reporting
Comments