Colon Cancer
Carmen Marc Valvo, Designer and Cancer Survivor, Teams Up With Dulcolax(R) and the Colon Cancer Alliance to Make it Fashionable for Americans to Get Screened
Published in Cancer Weekly, March 15th, 2011
2011 MAR 15 -- -To kick off national Colon Cancer Awareness Month, the makers of Dulcolax® products and the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA) have teamed up with American fashion designer, Carmen Marc Valvo, to fight the fears of the colonoscopy. Colon cancer is 90 percent curable when diagnosed early so why do so many Americans avoid getting a colonoscopy--the colon cancer screening test that could save their lives'
Men and women are recommended to begin screening at age 50, or even earlier if there is a family history of colon cancer. Despite these guidelines, alarming results from a new survey show that more than a quarter of respondents 50 years and...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-03-15)
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