Mar 3, 2016 | By: Lakeland News

Doctors are Encouraging Patients Get Screened for Colon Cancer

Colon Cancer is the number two cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Doctors have found that encouraging routine screenings can make a huge difference.

Colon cancer usually affects individuals aged fifty years and older and frequently there are no symptoms.

Doctors recommend individuals start getting a colonoscopy at age fifty.

Doctors suggest individual’s to get screened every ten years.

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