Why this Ontario rapper says colon cancer screening should start at age 30, not 50

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A Hamilton, Ont., musician and actor who is fighting fourth-stage colon cancer is calling on his provincial government to lower the minimum age for colonoscopy screening from 50 to 30.

Bishop Brigante, a rapper with hits like his 2017 single Hard Times and an actor with turns on shows like Orphan Black, was diagnosed with colon cancer in October 2023.

But it was two years earlier when, in his early 40s, he first started seeking care for stomach pain, diarrhea and blood in his stool.

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“My doctors would say, ‘That’s hemorrhoids.’ They told me that I had

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