•May 31, 2017•

Bill Cordell had turned 65 before his wife convinced him to have a colonoscopy.

“I knew I should have one because of what my dad went through, but I wasn’t having any symptoms so I thought everything was fine,” Cordell said. He remembers watching his father suffer from colon cancer.

Cordell finally made the call to his family doctor to request a colonoscopy. He was scheduled with Sarah Bush Lincoln gastroenterologist Alexis Ayonote, MD. While the procedure was painless, and the prep was not as bad as he had anticipated, Cordell immediately knew something was up when he learned that the doctor wanted to see him the next day.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.