Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Your time to get ahead of risk factors

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Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: Your time to get ahead of risk factors

What's the best way to stop colorectal cancer? Catch it before it starts. FOX 17 Women's Health Expert, Dr. Diana Bitner has what you need to keep an eye on.Read more stories from the FOX 17 Morning News teamDo you have an idea for the Morning News team or maybe an idea for a guest segment or something for the gang to come out and try? Send them an email at mornings@fox17online.com or call 616-447-5252 and leave a message.Follow FOX 17: Facebook…

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Free cancer tests available in Onondaga County

The Onondaga County Cancer Services Program is offering free colorectal cancer screening tests for people 45 and older who do not have health insurance.

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Nurse’s colon cancer detected thanks to early screening

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A neighbor turned the tables on a Riverside Regional Medical Center nurse who had advised her to get a colonoscopy, and it turned out to be life-changing. It started last August when Sabina Ferrell's neighbor, a woman in her 50s, talked to Ferrell about gastrointestinal issues she had been experiencing. "She disclosed to me some information about her GI issues," Ferrell said. "And I was like, 'Well, that's kind of conc…

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Local doctor on colon cancer prevention

March is national colon cancer awareness month - a time to raise awareness about colorectal cancer, promote early detection and encourage regular screenings. Dr. Douglas Purdy, with UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Gastroenterology, joins us to talk more about colon cancer prevention.

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CSP is Speaking Out About Colorectal Cancer

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and it’s worth talking about it! Colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer death in Black individuals, and 1 in 24 people will be diagnosed with colon cancer in their lifetime. In addition, Black Americans are 15% more likely to get colon cancer and 35% more likely to die from it than non-Hispanic White individuals. In the United States today, data shows that only 21% of uninsured …

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At the beginning of this year's colon cancer month in March, the Vienna Medical Association and the self-help colon cancer are once again pushing for more information about the disease in the population. It is the second most common type of cancer in Austria, but at the same time a "really avoidable cancer", as the specialist Katayoun Tonninger-Bahadori explained at a press conference in Vienna on Tuesday.