March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month
by Megan on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:28
Blue Star is the Official Colon Cancer Logo
Recently, Lisa wrote us and shared her FAP to J-Pouch Story. FAP (Familial Adenomatous Polyposis) is a genetic disorder that causes polyps and often cancer in the colon. It aggressively runs in families as you can see in Lisa’s story, but there is little awareness of the disease in the public. With March being Colon Cancer Awareness Month, it is excellent to bring attention both to Colon Cancer screening, as well as, awareness towards FAP.
FACTS from the Colon Cancer Alliance:
– 1 out of 8 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer.
– 90% of colon cancer is treatable.
– To learn more about Colon Cancer and early screening visit www.ccalliance.org to learn more accurate information about early detection, symptoms, etc…
We’ve often discussed Colon Cancer on this site in various ways, here is a flashback to some of our colon cancer awareness posts:
Please post your comments about your experience with Colon Cancer, any awareness is good awareness.
Megan says:
March 21st, 2009 at 10:30 am
I recently stumbled on this wonderful Cancer support website, http://survivoriam.com/
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