The key is to take action to protect yourself. Learn about how diet and a healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk. Learn how screenings can help prevent colorectal cancer by detecting pre-malignant polyps. Most importantly, talk to your doctor about how you can reduce your risk of colorectal cancer. Approximately 130,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed each year.
Colorectal cancer strikes men and women with almost equal frequency.
When detected early, ninety-one percent of patients with localized colorectal cancer have a very good prognosis. March is Hemophilia Month. A person with hemophilia has a missing or low supply of one of the factors needed for normal blood clotting. Hemophilia may be mild, moderate or severe depending on the levels of factors in the blood. Twenty-five percent of people with hemophilia have mild hemophilia.