Raising awareness about colon cancer research

Raising awareness about colon cancer research

Doctors kept telling her nothing was wrong.When Elmira resident Makena Janeczko’s mother first started experiencing abdominal pain, she was repeatedly informed that it was nothing to worry about, that she was in fine health. It was only when she marched into the ER of a local hospital and advocated strongly for herself that physicians took a closer look and discovered she had colorectal cancer.“I feel like if there was more research and we knew …