Anatomic Pathology

Cancer screening is like fencing in an animal: the goal is to catch the cancer/animal in order to control it. The complicating factor is that cancers turn out to be highly variable in their behavior. Imagine the slow growing ones as turtles. Fencing in a turtle will create the illusion that you’ve…

This March, watch your back or more specifically, your colon. Schedule a colonoscopy this month—it’s Colorectal/Colon Cancer Awareness Month after all—and avoid being one of the estimated 50,000 people to die this year from one of the most preventable cancers.