Guelph man wants you to #SaveYourButt after a scary brush with colorectal cancer
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A man from Guelph, Ont. who had a colorectal cancer scare last year is trying to raise awareness and funds for the disease.
Kyle Mackie said he just turned 50 last year when he was sent a notice in the mail that said he was eligible for colorectal cancer screening.
Mackie decided to get checked and said it was "surprising" to him that his test results came back abnormal. Doctors told him a colonoscopy was the next step for diagnosis.
"It was summer at the time. I was busy riding my bike and camping, and I didn't want to deal with that right away," he said.
"I waited until the end of the summer, booked that ... I went and sure enough, they found something that needed to be addressed."
Doctors found a small tumour in Mackie's colon.
He underwent a hemicolectomy, a procedure where doctors remove part of a person's large intestine. In Mackie's case, the doctors had to take out half of his colon where the tumour was located so they could test it properly.
Mackie is currently raising funds for Colorectal Care Canada, a non-profit organization aiming to reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer in Canada through education and awareness, while also helping improve the quality of life of those diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
He initially reached out to CBC Kitchener-Waterloo to talk about Facebook taking down his fundraising post almost immediately after being posted.
"I started a little fundraising campaign through Canada helps. It had a picture of a butt, a really nice crafted sculpture of someone's, you know, butt," Mackie said.
The picture is the backside of a Roman-type statue with the words "Butt, Seriously" beside it. Mackie has a sense of humour about the issue, with his slogan being: "Regular checks save butts," and "#SaveYourButt."
"I put that up on my Facebook page … it got flagged as nudity and immediately taken down within 30 seconds."
CBC News reached out to Meta, Facebook's parent company, via email for a comment on the post being taken down. A spokesperson said the content was eventually reviewed and re-posted.
"That was a bit of a shock … I said, you know, this is a good cause," Mackie said. "So eventually they did put that back up and it's up on my Facebook page now."
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