March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and while the disease is highly treatable if caught early, doctors say the pandemic has slowed down these cancer screenings.
Mar. 13—March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and it's worth knowing that the recommended age to begin getting colonoscopy screenings has dropped from age 50 to 45. The reason for this, according to Dr. Sam Chubineh, who has a private practice in Lockport, is the simple procedure is estimated to prevent 76% to 90% of colon cancer. With more than 130,000 people in the United .
Colon Cancer Survivor urges early and regular screening
Colon Cancer Survivor urges early and regular screening By Bethany Davis | March 10, 2021 at 5:49 AM CST - Updated March 10 at 9:26 AM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. It’s the third most common cancer in both men and women in the U.S. but one of the most treatable.
With no signs or symptoms, Tim Munsey considered a colonoscopy unnecessary until 2013.
“People ask, ‘did you not know that you had cancer? Did you not feel different? Did you not, you know, somehow know?’ And the answer to that is no; I didn’t. I felt perfectly fine,” Munsey explained.
Health 4th Mar 2021 6:17 AM Sports broadcaster Erin Molan has revealed she completed her first colonoscopy on Wednesday, calling on others to see their GP if something doesn t feel right . Molan s sister Sarah Sutton was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer at the age of 27, doctors discovering the disease almost by chance.
Watch The 2021 NRL Telstra Premiership Live & On-Demand with No Ad-Breaks During Play. New to Kayo? Try 14-Days Free Now > She d just had her second child, Molan told 9Honey in 2019. She essentially was very young and there wasn t really any awareness at that stage. She was incredibly lucky that my mum actually had a doctor s appointment and told her to take it.
Scientists from Cotton University, Guwahati, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Centre Houston and Aichi Medical University, Japan have collaborated with the IIT Guwahati professor in this development. Assisted by his then-post doctorate student, Dr Kangkana Bora, who is now an assistant professor at the Cotton University, Prof Bhuyan analysed real colonoscopy images generated by Dr Kunio Kasugai of Aichi Medical University, to develop the AI based cancer detection system