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Toccoa woman undergoes surgery to remove colon cancer
Routine colonoscopy reveals tumor near Cathy Stowe's large intestine
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Cathy Stowe, 60, an office assistant for Ebenezer Baptist Church, recovers at her Toccoa home from surgery less than a month ago . Stowe was informed she had stage 1 colorectal cancer about a week after her first colonoscopy. She now is on her way to being cancer-free. - photo by Erin O. Smith
On Feb. 19, Cathy Stowe gathered up her courage and faced one of her fears — undergoing her first routine colonoscopy screening. The 60-year-old woman’s results, however, were not routine. Doctors found a lesion during her test.