Bryce Ramsey was 33 years old when she noticed blood in her stool. She blamed the hemorrhoids she'd developed after her son's birth eight years earlier. It took a personal pledge — "if this happens the next time I go to the bathroom, I'm going to make a call" — to get her to a gastrointestinal clinic. Her doctor told her she would not normally scope someone of Ramsey's age. But something made her do it anyway.
"And thank God she did," Ramsey recalled to KFF Health News and Nashville Public Radio reporters Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer, "because she found a 5-centimeter polyp."
