Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness. Today, we have a

really important and meaningful topic to share with you. I'm Melanie Beasley. I'm a registered and licensed

dietitian, and joining me today as our co-hosts is Kelly McGraw, who has a master's in science

and clinical nutrition and dietetics and is a licensed nutritionist.

And this is our first time we get to be in studio together.

It's really fun to see you.

I'm so excited, Melanie.

What makes this topic special to both of us and to so many people today is that we are both in the field of nutrition

and we have been in this

for years, right? But also, we have both had cancer. So we get to work together as survivors.

And I was diagnosed with breast cancer 12 years ago. That was just two weeks after having had back

surgery. And I almost didn't go in from my mammogram

because I was in pain from the back surgery. Really glad I did. I think it was because it was just

such a pain to reschedule. I just went in and they found it. My co-host, Kelly, today also is a cancer

survivor. And I'm excited to have you share with our listeners

your story as well. Thanks, Melanie. I think the first thing we bonded over was having cancer

together. Absolutely. Right. So here's my story. When I was 48, my doctor recommended that I

get a colonoscopy due to my father's history of colon cancer.

My father was first diagnosed with colon cancer at age 67.

And he asked his doctors at that point, should my sister and I be screened early?

And the doctor assured my dad that because he was 67, my sister and I didn't need a colonoscopy

until the recommended age of 50. Currently, the new recommended age to get a colonoscopy is 45.

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