As a former president of the Lions Club of Grand Cayman, Andrew Eden was at the forefront of pushing the message of screening for colon cancer for the service organisation.

Little did he know that taking his own advice would lead to his own early cancer diagnosis.

“We had a doctor, Dr. Rod, who used to come to our Lions Club many years ago. I was in my early forties when he came there and explained to us the importance of being checked regularly. So, right away, I got started on getting the colonoscopy, and from the very first time they found a bunch of polyps in me,” Eden, 72, told the Cayman Compass in an interview on Wednesday.

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