March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Posted by Kate Murphy on March 1st, 2008
March is here! And we’re taking time to focus on colorectal cancer — prevention, screening, research, what’s new and what must be done to wipe out this disease that kills nearly 50,000 Americans each year and more than 630,000 people around the world.
We’ll run and walk this month, hold seminars, go to meetings, put stories on TV, talk to Congress. Some of us will have a colonoscopy or do a fecal occult blood test.
We’ll wear blue bracelets and pin the Blue Star of Hope on our shirt collars.
We’ll be hopeful because we are making progress and sad because too many of our friends are dying. We’ll remember colorectal cancer fighters who aren’t here this March.
What can we do during this month?
Get screened if we’re not screened and get our families and friends screened.
Work to get slipping funding for colorectal cancer research restored and increased. Research cures cancer!
Pull down the financial barriers to colorectal cancer screening so that every Butt is Covered.
Welcome to March. Spread the word.
