Colon cancer screening tied to better outcomes By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are diagnosed with colon cancer after routine colonoscopies tend to have better outcomes and less advanced cancers than people diagnosed based on symptoms, says a new study. Those who were diagnosed with colon cancer as a result of symptoms were three times more likely to die during the study than the patients diagnosed after colonoscopy ...
June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
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June 21, 2013 - MedicineNet.com
Do not forget importance of colon cancer screenings About 130,000 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year and 50,000 of those will die — that is roughly the same number of people killed in automobile accidents each year. read more
June 21, 2013 - Standard-Examiner