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Article: ASGE's Birthday e-Card Reminds Recipients to Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer!
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 9, 2009
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Anne Brownsey of American Society for Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy, +1-630-570-5635, abrownsey@asge.org
Study shows that sending screening reminders near a birthday
increases colorectal cancer screenings
OAK BROOK, Ill., March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American
Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) has created a birthday
e-Card featuring cartoon characters Peter and Polly Polyp(TM) that
reminds recipients age 50 and over to get screened for colorectal
cancer, also referred to as colon cancer. According to a recent
study from researchers in Norway, screening reminders sent during