Colon Cancer is highly preventable when patients are regularly checked and screened via colonoscopy. For years there was only one drug to treat this cancer. Now there are five.
The five year survival rates have increased to 65 percent, but when localized colon cancer is detected early and treated surgically, the survival rate is 95 percent.
Source : May 2008 AARP Bulletin page 13
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