This is the thing that we often put off until the next day. This test recommended by your doctor to detect such common cancers. We enter the practitioner's office full of good resolutions that disappear once we pass through the porte-cochère. This is the case with colorectal cancer, the second most common in men, third in women. The month of March was dedicated to its prevention. It is far too often neglected. Better screening would prevent 6,600 deaths each year.
This low support for prevention is a French characteristic, as pointed out by the Court of Auditors in 2021. It judges that the policies carried out in our country in this area obtain “mediocre” results, despite a financial effort comparable to that neighboring countries”. Particularly for the campaigns organized against the three cancers concerned (cervical, colorectal and breast). A shame.
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