Dress in Blue for Colon Cancer Awareness, March 2nd
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and your local digestive health experts at Gastroenterology Consultants are going to kick it off this Friday, March 2nd, by going loud with their blue on “National Dress in Blue Day.”
Be a part of the national movement that aims to stop colon cancer, a preventable cancer, from taking any more lives by joining the sea of blue on this day and every day of March. Invite family, friends, your employer and fellow colleagues to join you in going blue.
While colon cancer is a highly preventable cancer, it is the second-leading cause of cancer- deaths in the U.S. when it should not be this way. As 90% of colon cancer diagnoses occur in those of age 50 or older, it is recommended that routine colon cancer screening begins at the age of 50, earlier with a family history of colon cancer. Often times, those of age wait until it’s too late.
We can’t emphasize enough how preventable colon cancer is and how treatable and beatable it is if detected early through screening.
It’s no simpler than this – colon cancer screening saves lives!