More than half of Spaniards of colon cancer screening age have not done so.

Next March 31 marks the World Cancer Day in Colon, a date of great importance not only for those who suffer from this disease and struggle to recover, but also for those who strive daily to make detection more and more effective. That is why it is important to give increasing visibility to the screening program, a fundamental tool to detect it, as well as to educate people and provide them with all possible information to raise awareness about i…

Eight years ago Maria Luisa Campano had a blood test hidden in feces. She asked her doctor for it. She gave negative. In November 2021 she received a letter from Prevecolon to participate in the screening of colon cancer. And she did not doubt it. A decision that “saved my life. I was detected with colon cancer”. Thus, after giving positive blood in feces, colonoscopy confirmed that I had to operate. I had a tumor. “Not a half symptom of anythin…

The Spanish Association against Cancer is clear, it will not let any occasion pass this year to raise awareness among the population from 50 to 69 years old (it will be extended shortly to 74) of the need to perform the screening of colon cancer, a painless test that saves lives in a clear way, when detecting cancer in its initial phase. And this determination is explained after discovering that of the 14 million men and women at risk, more than…