Statistics reveal that it strikes men and women approximately equally.
The tragedy of this is that colon cancer, if caught, using early detection tools that we currently have available, is curable. One test for colon cancer is to detect blood in the stool, which the patient may or may not see. Also, there are special hemocult cards available, and the doctor may ask you to take these home and return with stool samples for testing. Unfortunately, only 26 percent of Americans age 50 and older have been tested for blood in their stool within the last three years. The hemocult blood test is one of the easiest, most inexpensive and effective screening tools that we have.