cancer screening

Wade Talley, Centralia K-12 principal, is pictured here with his beautiful family. He recently took his provider's advice and had a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. Wade agreed to share his experience. Here's what he said.

"I'm 46. Dr. Weiser said I should do it. I had a clean bill from the screening."

"We've had teachers here who have been directly affected by [colon cancer]. For me, it wasn't about me, but I have kids and a...

Let’s get the bad news out of the way: Colorectal cancer is among the most common cancers in the U.S., following breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer on the list. The good news is that, according to the American Cancer Society, the rate of people being diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer each year has dropped overall in the last several decades because more people are getting screened and making positive lifestyle changes.

March is Colorectal Cancer...

Hallie Beardsley was 42. She was a busy single mom to her two kids, and although she knew she needed to get a mammogram, she says she just “hadn’t gotten around to it.”

She’s glad she finally made the time, because the mammogram revealed a large mass that proved to be a rare type of breast cancer. Beardsley said she “completely lost it and thought it was a death sentence,” but her CHCS provider, Physician Assistant Jeremy Brandt, and...

CHCS has installed FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation’s ASPIRE Cristalle digital mammography solution at Onaga Community Hospital.

The ASPIRE Cristalle is an advanced mammography system that features Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), a state-of-the-art form of breast imaging that uses a low dose x-ray system to create three-dimensional images. Onaga Community Hospital radiologists can use 3D imaging to better visualize lesions that can be obscured in breast tissue,...

The consequences of COVID-19 have been many and varied, but one that may not be obvious could be a wave of cancer diagnoses. Many patients delayed important cancer screenings during the last two years, and experts are worried that cancers have gone undetected as a result.

Researchers have found that colonoscopies, the best way to screen for colorectal cancer, dropped by nearly half in 2020 compared to 2019, and they worry that there’s still a backlog. March is...

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States, and 25 to 30% of colorectal cancer patients have a family history of the disease according to FightCRC.

That was enough to convince Gary Sorensen, a patient of Dr. David Allen at Community HealthCare System, to start getting regular colonoscopies when he was in his late 40s.

“My dad had colon cancer, and it was detected in his 50s. My dad’s brother and his father...