Her tests had all been clear until a year ago when Dr. Sara has faithfully followed his advice, coming to Stanford annually, despite living three hours away. Ladabaum recommended she have a colonoscopy every year, not every five to eight years. By removing polyps early, before they are left to develop into cancerous lesions, colonoscopies can prevent colon cancer from ever developing.īecause of her family history, Dr. “Screening is proven to decrease the risk.” A routine colonoscopy allows doctors to both detect and remove small growths called polyps, all during one outpatient procedure. “Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of death from cancer, but the majority of deaths from colorectal cancer are preventable,” said Dr. “He said, ‘We’re going to develop a plan for you. Uri Ladabaum, MD, Director of Stanford’s GI Cancer Prevention Program, allayed her fears. She came to the Stanford Health Care Digestive Health Center for a second opinion. But Sara wondered if this was frequent enough. An all-clear result put her on a schedule to repeat the test in five to eight years. Because of her family history, she had her first colonoscopy in her 30s. Her mom had colon cancer three times, and both of her grandparents had the disease. Sara always suspected she was at high risk for colon cancer.
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“Fundamentally, it was an amazing story, and everybody agrees it was an amazing story we don’t need to break that.”īridenbecker said the decision to walk back its retconning plans was “just a natural part of the development process,” and that Blizzard didn’t talk about that decision because “we just wanted to focus on making the game.” Bridenbecker said that adapting the original Warcraft 3’s artwork, updating “tens of thousands of individual assets” while also supporting custom mods and “millions” of custom maps, is a monumental challenge in itself. Maybe don’t tinker with it too much.’ So we actually veered away from doing that as much. Some of those story changes would have given fan-favorite World of Warcraft characters - Jaina Proudmoore, Sylvanas Windrunner - more time in the spotlight in Warcraft 3 Reforged and tied their backstories into the RTS game.īridenbecker said that Blizzard “got a lot of really great feedback where the community was like, ‘Hey, hold on. Writer Christie Golden, who has worked with Blizzard on multiple novels set in the Warcraft universe, was originally tapped to help bring “parity” to the stories of Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft. That light retcon for Warcraft 3: Reforged isn’t happening anymore, Robert Bridenbecker, executive producer and vice president at Blizzard Entertainment, told Polygon at BlizzCon.
At the time, the developer said it wasn’t just giving the game a technical and visual overhaul, it was also going to “reforge” portions of Warcraft 3’s story campaign to align it with the story of World of Warcraft. Blizzard unveiled a remaster of its classic real-time strategy game, Warcraft 3, at BlizzCon 2018.