Flying High & Pooping Low: A Flight Surgeon’s Guide to Colon Cancer
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What do high-performance fighter jets and a stage four cancer diagnosis have in common? More than you think. This week, we’re joined by Dr. Avishek “Avi” Kumar, a man who pulls double duty as both a practicing oncologist and a U.S. Air Force Flight Surgeon. Avi spends his time breaking the sound barrier in F-16s and fighting the "slow-motion car crash" of cancer diagnoses in young adults. We dive into the "too young" trap: why 30-year-olds are increasingly being hit with colon cancer and why the "warning lights" are being ignored. From the G-force toll on the body to the "caliber" of your poop (yes, Avi uses military terms for dookie) this episode is about unlearning the shame that is quite literally killing us.
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| 0:47.7 | Hello, everyone. Today we are talking to a man who lives at the intersection of high altitude intensity and life-saving medicine. Dr. Avi Kumar is both a practicing oncologist and a flight surgeon for the |
| 0:59.1 | U.S. Air Force, which is wild if you think about it. This guy spends time in the cockpit of F-16s, |
| 1:08.1 | breaking the sound barrier, but his day job is kind of doing the opposite. He's fighting |
| 1:13.6 | the slow motion car wreck of stage four cancer diagnoses. We're diving into what he likes |
| 1:21.2 | to call the warning lights. Your body is throwing at you, specifically why colon cancer is |
| 1:26.0 | hitting people in their 20s and 30s at an alarming |
| 1:28.4 | rate and why we need to stop being too embarrassed to talk about our quote unquote caliber |
| 1:34.7 | before it's too late. What do I mean by caliber? I mean the size of your shit. And I think, I'm pretty sure that's what he was referring to. |
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