IF YOU GO• What: Get Your Rear in Gear 5k run/walk• When: March 12 at 11 a.m. 5k timed race; 1 p.m. 5k run/walk• Where: Tennessee Riverwalk at C.B. Robinson Bridge• Fees: Pre-registration $25 adults, $12 children 12 and under; race-day registration $30 adults, $15 children 12 and under• Info: www.getyourrearingear.com
After steadfastly refusing to get a colonoscopy for years, Alan Hunt was finally berated into getting the recommended cancer screening four years ago.
“Basically, my wife and [my doctor] browbeat me into having a colonoscopy at age 56,” he said.
Turns out, Hunt had four polyps on his colon, one of which already had turned cancerous. The cancer also had spread to one of his lymph nodes.
After surgery and chemotherapy, Hunt is now cancer-free and has become an evangelical for the screening he said saved his life.