When 35-year-old Maddee Moore began experiencing unexplained pain, fatigue and anemia in her late 20s, she instinctively knew something wasn’t right.

“I just knew that I didn’t feel good, and I knew that I should feel good,” she said in an interview with the Express ahead of the upcoming Killebrew-Thompson Memorial cancer research benefit in Sun Valley. “It was one thing to be told, ‘Oh, it’s just your period.’ I was like, ‘This is not my period.’”

After five years of persistent symptoms and repeated dismissal, Moore, a cattle rancher and account manager from La Grande, Oregon, was diagnosed with Stage 2 colon cancer. A colonoscopy revealed an 8.5-centimeter tumor. It wasn’t until her surgery at St. Luke’s Cancer Institute in Boise that the full scope became clear: A foot of her colon an

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