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Article: The preventable cancer: the right testing for colon cancer can save your life.(includes related article)
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- Good Housekeeping
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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The right testing for colon cancer can save your life What every woman needs to know.
It's the second most deadly cancer, killing more people each year than breast or prostate cancer. Yet colon cancer doesn't receive nearly as much attention. That's partly because no one likes to talk about the body parts involved: namely, the large intestine, made up of the colon, a six-foot-long tube that removes water from digested food and expels solid waste; and the rectum, the last six to eight inches of the large intestine. What's more, no celebrity has gone public with a first-person account of the disease to raise awareness, as former First Lady Betty Ford did for breast ...