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Report: Patients’ group urges early detection
March 2007 (Medialink) -- Every four minutes someone in the
United States is diagnosed with colorectal cancer. 55,000 people die
from the disease each year and 150,000 people are newly diagnosed.
Waging the battle against this disease requires educational
and support tools to help patients and their families cope, allowing
them to successfully continue their daily activities.
To help raise public awareness about the resources available
to patients and discuss the importance of early detection, the
Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) and the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA)
are teaming up to share information about living with colorectal
cancer.
They are designed to address some of the fundamental
questions associated with living with this disease;
choosing a health care team, knowing what questions
to ask, obtaining financial and other resources for
treatment and learning how to take control of your
situation.
One imperative recommendation is that anyone over the age of
50 should get a colonoscopy especially if there is a family history
of colorectal cancer.
More than nine in 10 new cases are found in people 50 years
or older. If detected in its early stages, colorectal cancer is more
than 90 percent curable. For more information, visit
ccalliance.org.
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