Health | Colorectal cancer: screening to save lives

Let’s start by putting an end to a tenacious received idea: no, colon cancer is not a male disease. In the 3,600 new annual cases in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, 1,900 patients are men, 1,700 women. “This cancer kills 17,500 French men and women each year, i.e. more men than prostate cancer and almost a number of women equal to breast cancer”, recalls Jean-François Seitz, gastroenterologist at Public Assistance -Hospitals of Marseille. Home test kit However, detected early, it is cured in nine out of ten cases. And that’s the whole point of the national awareness campaign Blue Mars, whose regional level was presented yesterday at the Press Club in Marseille. The traditional tool for this preventive detection