It's March, which means it's Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. There's no better time to get people thinking about what they can do to help conquer colon cancer. It's the time to get people on board with colon cancer screening . It's the time to help people get a handle on all of the things we can do to lower our own risk of colon cancer.
To celebrate Colon Cancer Awareness Month and bring new information about this disease to more people, we're doing a "blog blitz" here at About.com Colon Cancer. We'll blog every day in the month of March. The goal is to help more people get more of what they need - the facts about colon cancer.
Why Colon Cancer
I'm often asked what drew me to colon cancer as a topic about which I wanted to educate others. That's easy. The fact that so many colon cancers are preventable means that what I do may help people stay healthy. Risk of colon cancer is linked with many things that are within our control. This is what makes this such an exciting place to work.
After all, we can't change our age. We can't change our gender. We can't change our family medical history. We can't change our genetics. But we can change our health habits. Whether we or not we smoke, whether we get screened for colon cancer as advised, what we eat or don't eat, whether we exercise, how we maintain a healthy weight as we age... these are all things we can control. This, in turn, can affect our risk of colon cancer.
Not all colon cancers are linked to preventable causes, but many are. I want to do what I can to help people lower their risk of colon cancer by addressing preventable causes of this disease. If even one person avoids colon cancer or catches it early (when it's most treatable) because of something they learned from me, all of these blogs will be more than worth the effort!
Tune it tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after.... to see what's happening in colon cancer news.
