For saving lives from colon cancer, no test trumps colonoscopies
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and today several area health organizations teamed up to raise awareness about the disease.
March 9, 2010
There's a lot to celebrate in Florence Wigler's life. She has beaten breast and ovarian cancer, and she is confident she'll beat a recent diagnosis of colon cancer as well. So she felt like dancing a bit Saturday at an event for cancer survivors.
Dealing with a stage-four colorectal cancer diagnosis at age 49 was the biggest challenge Jo-Ann Pellegrini ever had to face.
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Michael Pollard's doctor suggested he have an endoscopy to see if the pain he was having in his stomach was the result of ulcers. Pollard figured while he was doing the endoscopy, he might as well do a colonoscopy.
