She did this because she put off getting a colonoscopy check-up for too long.Spencer didn’t know that screenings would have to start at age 45 instead of 50 in 2021 because of new rules.“If you could imagine me finding this grapefruit size tumor 6 years earlier–we would be having a different conversation,” she said earlier.“Yeah, a colonoscopy is painful, it’s unpleasant.” You don’t want a colonoscopy, but you have to get one. “Get it at 45.”