Urging Americans to Get Screened

The American Cancer society is urging Americans to get screened for breast, cervical and colon cancer - 3 of the most common cancers striking men and women in the US. As baby-boomers begin to age, it is vital to their colon health that they can screened yearly for polyps, tumors and cancer. Traditional invasive colon cancer screening has been used for years, however with the advent of noninvasive virtual colonoscopies, the procedure is more cost efficient, timely and less painful and embarrassing. The Washington Post has recently been promulgating the use of screening and early detection methods as well, "The rate of screening for breast and cervical cancers has stayed about the same since 2000, while the rate of colorectal cancer screening has increased but not as fast as experts had hoped, according to the report released Thursday by the American Cancer Society. "More people need to get screened than are being screened, and they need to get screened regularly -- that's a big problem," said report author Robert Smith, director of cancer screening at the cancer society."