And wouldn't you know it, I plumb forgot to celebrate what with all the other stuff going on. I'm going to have some carrots for dinner, 'cause better late than never.
Here are the stats: Approximately 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed and 56,000 people will die from the disease this year. Surpassing both breast cancer and prostate cancer in mortality, colorectal cancer is second only to lung cancer in numbers of deaths in the United States.
Colorectal cancer strikes men and women with almost equal frequency. In addition, it is often a silent disease, developing with no symptoms at all.
The ad over on the right got banned for being "in poor taste," but if it saves lives, I'm all for it. So don't smoke, get a colonoscopy, and let's all live to die from something less preventable like the Mayan Zombie Apocalypse or whatever they have planned for November.
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