{"id":737704,"date":"2024-10-14T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/?p=737704"},"modified":"2024-10-14T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:19:08","slug":"mom-with-marisa-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/mom-with-marisa-peters","title":{"rendered":"How Mom of 3 Marisa Peters\u2019 Colorectal Cancer Struggle Changed Her Life &amp; Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/i-was-diagnosed-with-rare-cancer-months-after-giving-birth-to-my-son\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cancer<\/a> isn&rsquo;t something moms want to think about. We&rsquo;re busy taking care of the kids, <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/how-to-create-bento-box-school-lunches-inspired-by-pop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">packing lunches<\/a>, meeting deadlines, and driving to activities. We know we need to schedule those checkups, tests, and screenings, but life is busy and we keep pushing things to the back burner.&nbsp;<\/p><p>So we think blood in our poop is probably from that hemorrhoid we got from carrying our babies. That&rsquo;s what Marisa Peters was told before being diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer in 2021, when she was 39 years old, after five years of her symptoms being mistaken for typical postpartum issues.<\/p><p>Marisa is a mom of three boys, a cancer survivor, a women&rsquo;s health thought leader and the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/beseen.care\">BE SEEN<\/a>. She is on a mission to spread awareness about early-onset colorectal cancer and save lives through advocacy. She is aiming to get 100,000 people to take the BE SEEN pledge to schedule their colonoscopies and screenings.&nbsp;<\/p><p>We spoke with Marisa about how she launched BE SEEN and her mission to save lives and prevent the rise of colorectal cancer impacting people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.<\/p><p><strong>More from CafeMom:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/sarah-krajewski-mom-with\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Mom of 3 Sarah Krajewski Stays Brave as a Survivor of Childhood Cancer &amp; Breast Cancer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer isn&rsquo;t something moms want to think about. We&rsquo;re busy taking care of the kids, packing lunches, meeting deadlines, and driving to activities. We know we need to schedule those checkups, tests, and screenings, but life is busy and we keep pushing things to the back burner.&nbsp; So we think blood in our poop is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":743403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-10-14T17:19:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"f17de3af-bd38-4fe5-ad31-5baeb2d96929","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-14T17:19:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8X3jr704T-WtMVuustlpKQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,85],"tags":[24192,388,1002,9999,997,243],"featured":[],"internal-tag":[],"series":[152],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mom Shares How Colorectal Cancer Changed Her Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BE SEEN founder and colorectal cancer survivor Marisa Peters shares how cancer changed her life as a wife, mother, and professional.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/mom-with-marisa-peters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Mom of 3 Marisa Peters\u2019 Colorectal Cancer Struggle Changed Her Life And\u00a0Mission\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colorectal cancer is on track to be the top killer of young moms by 2030.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/mom-with-marisa-peters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CafeMom.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-14T14:55:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-14T17:19:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CM_MomWith_October24_Banner.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2176\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1224\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cafemom.com\\\/parenting\\\/mom-with-marisa-peters#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cafemom.com\\\/parenting\\\/mom-with-marisa-peters\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Katharine Chan\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cafemom.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/94d31fc28774eead78970fd2ec99cff7\"},\"headline\":\"How Mom of 3 Marisa Peters\u2019 Colorectal Cancer Struggle Changed Her Life &amp; 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