The Medical Minute: Family tree one factor in colorectal cancer risk
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. In 2010, according to the American Cancer Society, there were more than 142,000 new cases of colorectal cancer in the United States and over 51,000 people died from the disease. Overall, the lifetime risk for developing colorectal cancer is approximately one in 20, or 5 percent, of men and women in the general population.