Political Quotes

“we use a lot of figures; we talk about millions of people, we talk about a half million people dying. I want to talk about a city of 100,000 people. In a city of 100,000 people, 50 people this year will develop colorectal cancer. Now, of those people, most all of them, if not all of them, have precancerous growths or polyps, and those polyps are in their rectum or colon, what we used to call the large bowel, for some time. Many years. In fact, I was examined and they found a polyp and they removed the polyp. Now, there are screening tests available today where these precancerous growths can be found. They are very simple tests. One is an occult blood test, which finds microscopic blood, and they can easily be found. And if an individual is screened, and if these polyps are found, they can easily be removed and it reduces the chances of getting colorectal cancer by 90 percent. The national polyp study showed that. So our first defense against this disease that costs so many lives is simply that people over the age of 50, all our citizens, should go in and discuss with their doctors screening.”