As Samantha wonders why she survived stage 3 cancer, and others have not, she reminds people cancer has no age limit. So, get checked.
NEW ORLEANS — This story is important to young adults. In the last 20 years, colon cancer has risen 15 percent in people 18 to 50 years old, but only 3 percent in people 45 to 55 years old.
So, why might the numbers be rising?
Years ago, Samantha Wolak saw how her Nana handled breast cancer with determination, staying active, and never letting it define her. Then, more than a decade after she lost her grandmother, she took that same approach when, at only 39, she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
“This is just another little bump in the road, and I’m going to move forward, and I’m not going to let it define who I am,” Samantha Wolak, 40, of Norco remembers thinking.
Her main concern was telling her family.
“Because with my mom having both of her …
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