Post Show Bonus Chat: Colon Cancer

Join Dr. Kennedy and Dr. Howard Schecter as they answer your questions in this Post show bonus chat. Not counting skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer found in men and women in this country. Thanks to colorectal cancer screening, polyps can be found earlier when it is easier to cure, and the death rate from this cancer has been going down for the past 15 years. Still, the risk of a man having colorectal cancer in his lifetime is about 1 in 19; for women it is about 1 in 20.