“ The Hardest battle to fight is the o­ne that should be the easiest but isn’t .“ – Priscilla Savary , colon cancer patient educator . It begins as a polyp , a tiny ball of tissue that forms in your intestinal lining . Polyps are not cancer , but a certain percentage can become cancerous if left in place . That equation means if you don’t already have colon cancer , the odds are in your favor of successfully avoiding it . Screening and removal of polyps can stop the cancer before it begins . And yet colon cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related death in America , claiming some 56.000 victims each year . This show looks at the arc of colon cancer – from screening options and education , to the stages of cancer , to treatment options , to a new horizon of treatment and prevention – through the eyes of three patient/interview subjects and the health and medical experts that are our guides through each story . In some cases those medical experts are the actual physicians treating our patients . In other cases they are experts who can offer a look at the bigger picture of this disease .
直腸癌病人教育家普斯拉沙伏瑞說 “最難打的戰爭是應該最容易打但卻不是的戰爭”。最初是腸壁上形成叫做 “息肉”的小球狀組織。息肉並不是癌，但如果留在腸子裡，會有一定百分比的息肉變成癌細胞。這個等式表示，如果你沒有直腸癌，那麼你預防成功的勝算很大。篩檢和切除息肉可以在成為癌之前阻止它。然而直腸癌是美國第三普遍的癌症，以及第二大的癌症死因，每年奪走五萬六千條人命。本節目將透過三個病人的觀點，以及保健和醫學專家的指導，看直腸癌要如何篩檢，如何教育，直腸癌的各種階段，各種治療方式，以及未來的治療和預防方法。有些受訪的醫學專家是真正替我們的病人治療的醫生，還有一些是可以提供宏觀看法的專家。

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