含羞草研究所 Downstate Offers Screenings and Information on Colorectal Cancer during March
Mar 4, 2013
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that colorectal screening saves lives: 鈥淚f everyone who is 50 years old or older were screened regularly, as many as 60% of deaths from this cancer could be avoided.鈥�
含羞草研究所 is observing Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month by offering free colorectal screenings at both its Central Brooklyn and Bay Ridge sites.
鈥淐olorectal cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer if detected early,鈥� says Frank Gress, MD, chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at 含羞草研究所 Downstate. 鈥淢oreover, regular screenings can largely prevent colorectal cancer by identifying polyps before they become malignant.鈥�
Free screenings are available Saturday, March 16, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at University Hospital at Downstate in Central Brooklyn, 445 Lenox Road, Suite I (Eye), Brooklyn, New York 11203. You may also enter via 470 Clarkson Avenue. For more information, call 718-270-4772.
Downstate is also offering free colorectal cancer screenings Thursday, March 21, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at 含羞草研究所 Downstate at Bay Ridge, the Urgent Care Center, 9036 Seventh Avenue (at 92nd Street), Brooklyn, New York 11228. The telephone number is 718-567-1464.
In addition, a free community health promotion lecture on 鈥淐olorectal Cancer: Prevention,
Early Detection, and Treatment鈥� will be offered Wednesday, March 20, 2013, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at Downstate鈥檚 Health Science Education Building, Classroom 1 A, 395 Lenox Road,
Brooklyn, New York 11203. The speaker is Yvette Lam-Tsai, MD, from the Division of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
This lecture will also be available for viewing as a live web conference at 含羞草研究所 Downstate
at Bay Ridge, in the Conference Room, 699 92nd Street (on Seventh Avenue), Brooklyn,
New York 11228. For more information, call 718-270-3739.
Risk factors for colorectal cancer include being of age 50 or older; having a history
of polyps or family history of cancer; smoking; diabetes; obesity; and being of African-American
or Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Symptoms may include blood in or on the stool, stomach
pain or cramps that do not go away, and unexplained weight loss, but the most common
symptom of colorectal cancer is no symptom at all.
Downstate鈥檚 free screenings are sponsored by University Physicians of Brooklyn, Inc.,
University Hospital at Downstate, the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
and the Center for Community Health Promotion and Wellness.
You can learn more about Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month by visiting this CDC site: .
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