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GI Medicine| Cancer Research| Global Health @UCLAHealth @DeptVetAffairs @Seed_Global | 👩🏾‍🎓@Yale @Harvardmed @Cambridge_uni @MGHmedicine @UCLAfsph
Aug 29, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
#ColonCancer impacts us all. Even our mighty superheroes.

A reminder:
✅ No family history->screen at 45 or 50.

✅ Family history->screen at 40 or earlier.

✅ If symptoms at ANY AGE-> colonoscopy now

✅ Don’t let #COVID19 allow u 2 delay

Wakanda Forever✊🏾
#ChadwickBoseman 2/#ChadwickBoseman was full of grace & strength, keeping this devastating secret from public as he braved chemotherapy & other treatments to battle this disease. Pls understand that the age of onset in his case is unusually young, but we do see #coloncancer more often in Blacks