lesson is: don't rely on governments,GET TESTED,

and if you have surgery: aggressively follow up your treatment!

"Colorectal tumours kill more Canadians than either breast or prostate cancer. And screening has been sought — for years — by Cancer Care Ontario, the provincial agency that co-ordinates cancer services.

But Queen's Park hasn't acted.
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Despite billions spent on cancer research, despite the work of thousands of scientists, hundreds of new drugs, better radiation techniques and improved surgery — despite all that, the odds of dying of cancer haven't much changed since the 1960s. Prevention saves many more lives Death rates still alarmingly high
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There has been progress. Better treatments allow most cancer patients to live longer and more comfortably. Chemotherapy's ravages are better controlled. Surgery is less disfiguring.
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cigarette smoking is still the single largest preventable cause of cancer."

Obesity is another big factor; the American Cancer Society links one-third of cancer deaths to unhealthy diet and inactivity.