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It’s no wonder Karen Grover’s favourite yoga move is the warrior pose. The Hamilton fitness enthusiast – whose weekly routine includes yoga classes, gym workouts and 5 km runs — has won significant health battles over the years, including defeating colon cancer. Karen, 58, was diagnosed in 2012, after a take-home screening test that looks…

BRANT COUNTY — Burford farmer Larry Davis is well-known in Brant and beyond for his powerful singing voice. A member of choirs including Brant Men of Song and the Ontario Male Chorus, Larry is now lending his voice to something new by partnering with the Brant County Health Unit and the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant…

Stoney Creek man throws support behind cancer screening campaign What do plumbing and colorectal cancer prevention have in common? A lot, says Bob Birnie, a Stoney Creek resident and director of Hamilton-based plumbing company Birnie and Sons. Bob and four of his colleagues are partnering with the Regional Cancer Program to promote a new test…

Hamilton resident Gerry O’Shaughnessy hopes to keep his health scares in the past. “I’ve been through the mill with my health, that’s for sure,” says Gerry, 65. “But I know, moving forward, that there are certain changes I need to make. One is to quit smoking, which is really challenging after a lifetime of cigarettes. The…

Burlington resident Paul Spelman believes that early detection through colorectal cancer screening could have saved his father’s life. That’s why the Birnie and Sons plumber is throwing his support behind a campaign promoting a new province-wide screening test for colorectal cancer – often called colon or bowel cancer. Screening can help prevent colon cancer or…

`Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.’ “That old saying still holds true,” says Cayuga resident Rob Birnie, owner of the Hamilton-based plumbing company Birnie and Sons. “I would encourage people to keep their colon rollin’ by taking the province’s new colon cancer screening test.” Rob along with four of his colleagues…

Hamilton Mountain resident Roy Birnie is encouraging men and women across the region to `check their plumbing’ with the new at-home fecal immunochemical test (FIT) that screens for signs of colorectal cancer, commonly called colon or bowel cancer. FIT is now available free across the province through Cancer Care Ontario’s organized colon cancer screening program,…