CBS anchor Harry Smith is scheduled to have a colonoscopy live on The Early Show this Wednesday. March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Harry is getting into the spirit of things by undergoing the procedure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, CBS News said on Tuesday.
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric lost her husband to colon cancer in 1998. She had an on-air colonoscopy on The TODAY Show back in 2000 and plans to be with Harry as he prepares for the procedure — performed by Dr. Mark Pochapin. After Katie’s colonoscopy, University of Michigan researchers documented a 20 percent increase in the number of colonoscopies performed across the country. They dubbed it “The Couric Effect.”