• According to the American Cancer Society: colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in African American women and the third in African American men.
• Colon cancer affects 56,000 Americans annually, approximately 16,000 cases of colorectal cancer are expected to occur in African Americans in 2005.
• Approximately 7,000 African Americans will die from colon cancer in 2005
• 90% of colon cancer is preventable.
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Who's at risk?
What are the symptoms?
How can I get screened?
What's the treatment?
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Real Stories and Good Advice
Dale C. Holly, M.D., Gastroenterologist, Atlanta Gastroenterology: What are colon polyps? How and why colonoscopy is used to remove them?
Dr. Sherondae Wilson, M.D/Doctor of Naturopathy, “The Doctor Is In” Health Ministry, Hillside Chapel & Truth Center: Why does he as a naturopath sometimes recommend colonic therapy, or colon cleansing?
William Marraign, CEO Oakhurst Medical Center in Stone Mountain: In October, 2002, he experienced excruciating abdominal pain, which doctors intitially thought was apendicitis. Days later a grapefruit-sized tumor was removed from his colon. He describes lifestyle changes has made since then.
Valerie Ivey: The physical therapists assistant has been in pain for 7 years, but only after she switched primary-care physicians did she learn that a 4-cm, precancerous lesion was growing in her colon. It was removed before it progressed to cancer. Because Valerie’s father is a survivor of colon and prostate cancers, Valerie emphasizes the importance of early colon cancer screening when there is a family history of cancer.
