Yep. You are too valuable to your family to not get checked. And too valuable to yourself!
And to men over 50, get that PSA tested for prostate cancer.
And to men younger than 50, if there is a history of colon polyps in your family, get a Colonoscopy. My father had polyps, had them removed twice. I'm female, and have been getting Colonoscopies regularly since I was 50. I'm 75 now. Ended up with a perforated bowel due to diverticulitis in 2010, had a resection, and a temporary colostomy for three months, then the reversal.
In 2019 my youngest son, then 48, was diagnosed with large cancerous polyps. His Gastroenterologist told him he wished he had come to see him 10 years before, but the problem is, 10 years earlier, they weren't screening people aged 38. He had two resections, and they removed over 70 lymph nodes. They took a large part of his colon out, and he went through 6 months of chemo. He still has bad neuropathy in his feet...a side effect of the chemo. He also had it in his hands, but after a year or so, that went away. And because they took out so much of his colon, he has to go to the bathroom more often. He's cancer free, and will have to continue to be scanned on a regular basis. When I told my Gastroenterologist about my son's colon cancer, he told me they are now screening men at an earlier age, because they have seen an uptick of colon cancer in younger people...mostly men. Get screened if you haven't done it already. It just might save your life.