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Michael Cecchini, MD, Yale Cancer Center medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, is available to discuss several topics during colorectal cancer awareness month.
With March being Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Kelly Sugihara from the Wyoming Cancer Resource Services is making rounds to educate parts of the state about the importance cancer screenings.
With her organization she helps people without insurance to be able to get colorectal, cervical, or breast cancer screenings for free. She says Wyoming is the second lowest in the nation for pre cancer screenings.
“We’re at the bottom of the barrel,” Sugihara said.
She doesn’t exactly know why, but wants to see it improve. She says the second most common cancer is colon cancer. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is estimating about 52,000 cases in 2021 in the United States.