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Article: Colon cancer highly preventable, American Cancer Society says.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- April 2, 2002
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2002 APR 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Colon cancer can be easily prevented; yet it remains the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and will claim nearly 57,000 American lives this year.
According to 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. Colon cancer screening tests identify suspicious or precancerous polyps, which can be removed before they develop into a serious health problem.
"Routine colon cancer testing can actually prevent the disease from occurring," said Robert ...