Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: March 2024

Summary

March 2024 is designated as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. The reasons to be screened for colorectal cancer are simple to recognize. We need to be alive in order to be a part of someone’s life. That is why colorectal cancer screening is important for our mental wellbeing. Some resources about this topic are listed in the post. The message is simple: Get screened.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

March 2024 is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. And, yes, this has everything to do with mental health.

Colorectal Cancer Screening: Why It Matters for Mental Wellbeing

March 2024 is designated as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

The message for all of us is to learn about colorectal cancer and to learn when and why we should seek screening. Depending on our family history and genetics and demographics, each of us may require colorectal screening at a different stage in our lives.

Become informed.

We rely on our families, friends, and colleagues to work with us. Our relationships with others contribute to our sense of belonging. But, our families, friends, and colleagues have to be alive to be available to us in this dimension of our world.

And, we have to be alive to be available to others.

Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer

When it’s time to be screened for colorectal cancer, do so. Do it for yourself. Do it for your family. Do it for your friends. Do it for your colleagues.

Resources

Here are a few resources about colorectal cancer screening:

Hip Hop Public Health

Colon Cancer Screening Awareness

English: https://www.hhph.org/work/learning-studio/colon-cancer-awareness

Spanish: https://www.hhph.org/work/learning-studio/hazte-la-prueba-para-detectar-el-cancer-de-colon

CDC Colorectal Cancer Awareness

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/resources/features/colorectalawareness/index.htm

American Cancer Society

Colorectal Cancer

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/colon-rectal-cancer.html

Screening for Living

That’s what it’s all about: living.

Awareness of colorectal cancer is the first step. But, screening is essential.

Get screened.

Your life deserves You in it.