There are many different preventative interventions designed to promote health wellness for many different populations. I work in oncology and when it comes to cancer early detection is key so there are many preventative interventions that go along with this such as mammograms, screening colonoscopies, skin checks, regular primary care visits to name a few. The preventative intervention I will choose is screening colonoscopies. I worked in gastrointestinal surgical oncology and interventional gastroenterology at the cancer center for three years and over this time I learned a lot about screening colonoscopies and colon cancers etc. In people with a regular risk screening colonoscopies should begin at the age of 45 and is the key to preventing colorectal cancer and finding it early (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). You should continue to have regular screenings until you are 75 and after that you should talk to your doctor about the need to continue screening and how often but from 45-75 it is imperative that you get screened regularly. If you have inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s or a family history of colon cancer, or a genetic syndrome such as Lynch syndrome you need to start screening much earlier than 45 years old because you are at a much high risk for these cancers (CDC, 2022). One of the physicians I worked with does a lot of research for colorectal cancer and the age for it is getting younger and younger, so medicine is trying to prove that the age for screening colonoscopies needs to be moved to a younger age like in your 30’s. For patients who skip their screening colonoscopy, colon cancer incidence and colon cancer-related death increased significantly (Endoscopy Center of Red Bank, n.d.). Patients who chose regular colonoscopies had very favorable results. Average risk patients with normal colonoscopy test results were 46 percent less likely to develop colon cancer and 88 percent less likely to die of colon cancer when screened at recommended ten-year intervals (Endoscopy Center of Red Bank, n.d.). Moral of the story is get your screening colonoscopies done. They may not be fun, but they have really advanced the preparations for it, and it could save your life.