Owensboro health leaders teaching cancer awareness with inflatable colon replica
OWENSBORO, Ky. (WFIE) - Owensboro Health officials are hoping to teach awareness of colon cancer.
Owensboro Health partnered with the Kentucky Cancer Program to bring in the Incredible Colon, which is a 20-foot inflatable colon replica.
Visitors could walk through the tunnel and learn about how the colon works and ways and improve digestion health.
Jaime Daniel, a cancer control specialist for Owensboro Health, says the colon testing age requirement went from 50 to 45 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“If a person has a benign polyps, which is a pre-cancerous polyp during the screening, it can actually leave without any pre-cancerous in their body,” Daniel said.
Officials say out of the top 10 cancers in Daviess County, colon cancer is ranked fifth in new cases and second in deaths.
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