March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and all month long, people who qualify can request a free, at-home screening kit from Ascension St. Vincent.
Colon cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer, excluding skin cancers, and is also the second leading cause of death among cancers.
To qualify for the free kit, you must be between the ages of 45-75 and have not had a colonoscopy within the last 10 years, or used an at-home test kit within the last 12 months. "In the last several decades, we have noticed the rate of colon cancer has been declining thanks to the screening programs that we have," says Dr. Yousef."However, there are two gaps that are still there. The first one we started to see, the rate of colon cancer is increasing in younger people. In patients, generally speaking, younger than the age of 50. And the second thing, patients, we are still not where we like to be at when it comes to the colon cancer screening.
You collect the stool sample from your home and submit the sample for testing using the enclosed postage.
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