March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
March 1, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Colorectal cancer is still one of "those" cancers, one that isn’t talked about all that often. After all, who wants to talk about bathroom troubles, right? Sadly, that is right. So, we need to raise awareness of the issue and having a month dedicated to it is one way to start.
A few years ago, the Colossal Colon visited the Montreal area. My youngest son was in high school and studying biology that year, so his class went for a field trip to check it out. It’s a great way to raise awareness, but his teacher took it one step farther. He said that if a student could get a parent to go for a colonoscopy, they’d get an extra mark on their grades. I thought that was pretty cool.
So, this month, I’ll be trying to find anything and everything I can on colorectal cancer. And maybe I can convince some people to get screened, if they haven’t already.
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