National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we at StayWell continue to reinforce the importance of early screening for cancers of all types and this couldn’t be imperative than for colorectal cancer. Although not as widespread as breast and lung cancer, this cancer site is still within the top 5 cancers to claim lives each year. Of the 1.9 million people diagnosed with cancer in the United States, 8% of these diagnoses were colorectal cancer. However, despite this colon cancer holds the number three spot for deadliest cancers for men and fourth deadliest cancer for women, having claimed some 52 thousand lives each year.
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