{"id":527,"date":"2014-03-07T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:46:07","slug":"dress-in-blue-presidential-proclamation-screening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/dress-in-blue-presidential-proclamation-screening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dress in Blue, Presidential Proclamation &amp; Screening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 28th, 2014, President Barack Obama proclaimed March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and said, \u201cI encourage all citizens, government agencies, private businesses, non-profit organizations, and other groups to join in activities that will increase awareness and prevention of colorectal cancer.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/02\/28\/presidential-proclamation-colorectal-cancer-month-2014\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(Click for full Proclamation)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to raise awareness for colon cancer, today (the first Friday of March) is National Dress in Blue Day. \u00a0Why Blue you ask? \u00a0According to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/support.ccalliance.org\/site\/TR?fr_id=1830&amp;pg=entry\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Colon Cancer Alliance\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span>, \u201cthe nationally-recognized blue star represents the eternal memory of the people whose lives have been lost to the disease and the shining hope for a future free of colon cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to National Dress in Blue Day, March 7th, 2014 is also National Colonoscopy Screening Day!<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cxo1IQIi3q4\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click to watch a video to learn what a colonoscopy screening is really like<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here\u2019s a hint: it\u2019s much easier than you are imagining.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Colorectral cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Your likelihood is 1 in 20 (this will vary based on family history, first degree relatives, and lifestyle)<\/li>\n<li>136,000: the number of new cases of colorectal cancer each year in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>1 in 3 American adults (roughly 23 million) aren\u2019t screened for colon cancer, as recommended.<\/li>\n<li>Colon cancer is 80% curable when detected early, and most colon cancers can be prevented with appropriate screening.<\/li>\n<li>Colon cancer claims more than 50,000 Americans each year.<\/li>\n<li>The recommended age for a screening is 50, however, if you have a family history of colon cancer, your first screening should be 10 years before the relative was diagnosed with colon cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Please call Granite Peaks Gastroenterology to get scheduled for your colonoscopy, if not for you, do it for those you love. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phone: (801) 619-9000 or simply request an appointment by clicking <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/request-appointment\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On<a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/condition\/heartburn-acid-reflux\/symptoms\/\"> <\/a>February 28th, 2014, President Barack Obama proclaimed March as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and said, \u201cI encourage all citizens, government agencies, private businesses, non-profit organizations, and other groups to join in activities that will increase awareness and prevention of colorectal cancer.\u201d (Click for full Proclamation) In an effort to raise awareness for colon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,10],"tags":[72,59,60,364,268,61,24,265],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granitepeaksgi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}