Local Businesses Help Promote Colon Cancer Awareness Month

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and ten local businesses are helping to raise awareness of the number two cause of cancer-related deaths in Idaho by putting messages on their sign boards.

“Between 2004 and 2008 nearly 3,000 Idahoans were diagnosed with colon cancer and just over 13-hundred died from the disease,” said Central District Health Department Health Educator Joanne Graff. “These sobering statistics reinforce the need to raise awareness of a disease that is treatable and beatable with early detection. We appreciate the support of these businesses in helping to get the message out.”

The ten businesses supporting Colon Cancer Awareness are:

Click on the links below for images of the signboards

Snake River Yamaha
Town and Country
The Swim and Run Shop
Pro Care Landscape
Anvil Fence Company
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Cleaning Service
Metro Express Car Wash
Meridian Ford
Idaho State University (Meridian campus)

For more information and to get a free colon cancer test kit call the Idaho CareLine at 2-1-1 or visit idahocareline.org.