To the Editor:
Since colon cancer is the second highest cause of death in America, and the reason for a great many ostomies, we need to pay attention to it and help spread awareness of the value of early screening (colonoscopies).
Awareness Month is being kicked off this year with Dress in Blue Day on Friday, March 4, 2011. Blue is the color adopted by the colon cancer awareness folks, and appears in their national symbol, the blue star.
Colon cancer survivors in the Hudson County area can meet with others to discuss finding “HOPE” (Healing, Options, Peer Support, Education), and pick up their “Blue Star Pin” (the
national emblem of colorectal cancer) at the upcoming Bayonne Ostomy Alliance meeting on Wednesday, March 9, at 2 p.m. in the 2-B Conference Room at Bayonne Medical Center, 29th Street at Avenue E.
LAWRENCE (LARRY) PILARSKI
Bayonne Ostomy Alliance