March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Take action!
February 29, 2008During March – Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month – put your colorectal cancer awareness to work and help us pass butt covering legislation.
In about 10 days, colorectal cancer advocates will be on Capitol Hill urging their Members of Congress to support the three pieces of legislation that are supported by the Cover Your Butt Campaign. About a week after that – on Wednesday, March 19th – we’ll be urging everyone across the US to participate in the Congressional Butt-In, a one-day phone blitz to Capitol Hill.
Take action. Put your Members of Congress on notice that they will be hearing from you and many others throughout Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month about the importance of making colorectal cancer screening available to everyone who needs it.
Anything less is just talk.
I am an oncology nurse practitioner and my mother was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer last year. She was not offered a screening colonoscopy despite the fact that she has both Medicare and secondary coverage. I will lose my mother to this battle and yet she is otherwise very healthy. Its sad that we can prevent the disease and yet insurance companies and Medicare do not cover the complete cost making it unlikely for many to get screened. Lets put the money towards people’s health not in the hands of the top executives!!!!!!
i think that the screening age for rectal cancer should be changed to age 35 years. heres why im 39 years old and was just diagnoised with stage IV colorectal cancer that spread to my liver. i was missed diagnoised so many times for almost a year before they finally did a rectal exam. by then it already spread to my liver. they need to screen for rectal cancer a lot earlier. it will help a lot of young people like me.