A 39-year-old man saw blood in his poop. He had colon cancer.0

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• July 10, 2026

After seeing blood in the toilet bowl perhaps a half-dozen times over the course of a few weeks, Russ Read-Barrow visited the doctor. He didn’t have any other symptoms, but something felt off, he told Business Insider. “I thought, ‘Oh, this doesn’t seem right,’” he said. Read-Barrow was 39 years old at the time and