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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.
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Abu Dhabi: Shaikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC) marks ‘Colon Cancer Awareness Month’ this March by launching a ‘Where Women Take Care of Women’ campaign.
SSMC is ensuring female patients are paired with female endoscopists “to elevate their comfort and experience” during colonoscopies. As part of SSMC’s campaign, seven female endoscopists are spearheading colonoscopies for female patients.
SSMC said several international studies indicate that, due to the uncomfortable nature of endoscopies in general, female patients are more likely to factor gender when choosing their physicians, most often choosing female physicians.
‘Cultural stigma’
This has been “further cemented” in a Middle East based article recently published in the ‘Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Journal’, which suggests that the cultural stigma around gastroenterological procedures and their nature of being inherently invasive and involving intimate body areas have shown to enhance patient prefere
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.