A 25-year-old woman got engaged after landing her dream job. Days later, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.

When she was 25, Anastasia Sevriukova experienced a few colon cancer symptoms. Because she had no family history, she thought she had hemorrhoids and was just tired from her job. She was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. Sevriukova first noticed blood in her stool at age 25 and tried hemorrhoid creams that didn't work; when the bleeding persisted for months, she saw a primary care physician in September 2024, who put her on a four-month waitlist to see a GI.

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