Best of luck, Jerry.

I was diagnosed with bowel cancer almost 3 years ago. I went to the doc when it became obvious the symptoms I had were not going to clear up and luckily for me it was detected early enough to be dealt with. I had surgery to remove the section of bowel and fortunately the tumor had not penetrated right through the bowel wall so it looks like I have been lucky. I am still under observation, but no signs of a recurrence so far, so fingers crossed...

It certainly made me think and I don't take my health for granted any longer.

One downside - getting travel insurance now is a real problem. The moment they see either cancer or heart troubles, they immediately double or even treble the premium, even though you are clear and unlikely to take that into account. It's just knee jerk. We had to cancel a planned holiday in the USA as they were asking more for health insurance than the whole trip was going to cost.