Vanessa was diagnosed with bowel cancer at 28. She wants you to know it’s not just an old person disease

Vanessa Mendico thought bowel cancer was an old person’s disease.

That is, until she got it herself.

“The only thing I knew about bowel cancer was the kits that my parents got in the mail,” Vanessa told triple j hack, referring to free testing kits sent out by the government to people aged 50 and…