Three-time colon cancer survivor, Jennifer Lava joins TODAY to share her remarkable of first being diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at age 34 — and then two more times after that. Lava admits that when she first received her diagnosis, she knew “very little to nothing” about colorectal cancer and never thought a young healthy person like herself would be diagnosed. Lava’s doctor, expert in young-onset colorectal cancer at Memorial Sloane Kettering in New York, Dr. Andrea Cercek, also joins the conversation to talk about the importance of getting checked, even when symptoms feel mild.March 27, 2026
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