{"id":295158,"date":"2019-03-08T06:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295158"},"modified":"2019-03-08T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:06:42","slug":"colon-cancer-2nd-most-deadly-5th-most-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/colon-cancer-2nd-most-deadly-5th-most-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Colon cancer: 2nd most deadly, 5th most common"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_295171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295171\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cancer-awareness-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cancer-awareness-pix-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-295171\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Gov. Arnold Palacios, center, signs the colorectal cancer awareness proclamation as Commonwealth Cancer Association executive director John Babauta, right, looks on.\u00a0(Erwin Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorectal cancer in the U.S. is the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer and is also the second most common causes of cancer deaths for both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>Those alarming numbers underscored yesterday\u2019s proclamation signing, which designated March as the National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 2019. Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios signed the proclamation designation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Commonwealth Cancer Association executive director John Babauta, cancer can happen to anybody\u2014anytime, anywhere, and at any age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not discriminate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>That makes colon cancer one of the top cancers in the CNMI, according to Babauta. \u201cWe want to raise awareness and encourage everybody to do their check-ups and prevention, as well as see their primary doctors,\u201d he said. \u201cThese \u2018warriors\u2019 also need to be taken cared of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cancer survivor Brett M. Halstead, 52, noted that he has been cancer-free for four months already, as his colorectal cancer was detected early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry to get yourself checked as soon as possible. The age of 45 is probably better for colorectal cancer,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Halstead credits his early detection for saving his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found out about it last year, March 24, 2018, through a colonoscopy at the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. From there, I quit my job and had to go get treatment,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was hard having to go through all these surgeries, but I survived; I lived,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s proclamation noted that 90 percent of individuals whose colorectal cancer were detected in their early stage have been able to survive, while only 10 percent survived after the same cancer has spread to other organs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026The risk factors increase after the age of 50,\u201d the proclamation states. \u201c\u2026It is important to educate oneself on the signs and symptoms of colorectal cancer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Based on CCA records, there are fewer than 10 cancer patients on island right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorectal cancer in the U.S. is the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer and is also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":295171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}