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Article: Discovery Health Channel and the American Cancer Society Collaborate During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month; One-hour Documentary CATCHING A KILLER: COLON CANCER Premieres Wednesday, March 13.
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- February 27, 2002
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BETHESDA, Md. -- Colorectal cancer (commonly referred to as colon cancer) can be easily prevented; yet it remains the second leading cause of deaths in the United States and will claim nearly 57,000 American lives this year. According to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society, the nation's leading voluntary health organization, many of those lives could be saved if people better understood the risks for the disease and got tested regularly.
To help generate awareness of colon cancer and the importance of testing and early detection, Discovery Health Channel and The American Cancer Society, as part of an ongoing collaboration, have joined forces to ...