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Article: COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH PROMOTES TESTING, REGULAR SCREENINGS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 13, 2008
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The Tennessee Department of Health issued the following news release:
Gov. Phil Bredesen has declared March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Tennessee once again this year joins this national health observance first created in 2000 by the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation to increase awareness of the importance of regular screening to save lives and decrease the national burden of colorectal cancer (cancer of the colon or rectum).
The Tennessee Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition encourages all Tennesseans to get screened for colorectal cancer if they are over the age of 50 or are at risk. This year's awareness month follows the recent loss of a state legislator to colon ...