CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – The recent death of 48-year-old actor James Van Der Beek is putting a spotlight on colon cancer — especially in people under 50.
In Cedar Rapids, Phil Decker says his own diagnosis came without warning. Decker was 46 when he went in for what he believed would be a routine colonoscopy. He had just run the Boston Marathon and was training for another. He says he felt completely healthy.
Instead, doctors found advanced cancer…