I'm 37 and just had a giant colon polyp removed a couple months ago. The gastroenterologists seemed kind of surprised that it (thankfully) wasn't cancerous, ju

I'm 37 and just had a giant colon polyp removed a couple months ago. The gastroenterologists seemed kind of surprised that it (thankfully) wasn't cancerous, just a nasty looking tubulovillous adenoma. If they hadn't removed it it would probably have been a carcinoma pretty soon. So, a thing that could have totally killed me in a couple years if I hadn't done anything didn't, and I only knew that anything was amiss because it was bleeding a little bit. (Moral of the story is go to the doctor if you notice something like that. Most of the time, it'll just be a hemorrhoid or something; if it's not, that's probably the only warning you're going to get.) This has made me more aware of my own mortality than I care to be, even though it was successfully dealt with. I too would love if cancer-fighting technology were more advanced, or if we could just edit those genes that put some of us at higher out of our genomes.