An ever-increasing collection of studies are emerging that demonstrate the impact of various lifestyle factors and their impact on disease risk. This means that some types of cancer and other chronic diseases - colon cancer included - are largely preventable.

Be Seen, Get Screened's Physician Spotlight Q&A series highlights the work of health care professionals on the front line in the fight against colon cancer. In our latest Q&A, we talked to medical Gastrointestinal pathologist Dr. Mohammad Kamal about the importance of screening and its impact on the early detection of colon cancer.

This Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, members of Congress are teaming up in a bipartisan effort to break down the barriers to colon cancer screening and combat the most preventable, yet least prevented cancer.

According to the American Lung Association, cigarette smoking has been identified as the largest source of preventable disease and death worldwide. Smoking-related diseases claim nearly 440,000 lives every year.

Be Seen, Get Screened's Physician Spotlight Q&A series highlights the work of health care professionals on the front line in the fight against colon cancer. In our latest Q&A, we talked to Dr. Kelly Finan, a colorectal surgeon at Mary Bird Perkins – Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center.

A new modeling study suggests that if 80% of Americans underwent their recommended screening, about 280,000 colon cancer cases and 200,000 deaths could be prevented by 2030.

In a world filled with millions of sources of health information available at the click of a button, it can be hard to differentiate the good information from the bad. Often we ask ourselves, "Which health tips are right for me?"

Researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York sought to discover whether or not increases in colon cancer screening rates over the last few decades have had a real impact on incidence and mortality. The results of the study were astounding.

Some of our biggest supporters here at Be Seen, Get Screened come from the brave group of people who have survived colon cancer themselves. To highlight their experiences, we regularly feature survivors in Q&As here on the Be Seen, Get Screened blog. 

Our latest interviewee is Barkley Booker, a Stage III colon cancer survivor who was declared cancer-free just a few months ago.

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 2015 is well underway, and the advocacy community has some awesome events planned designed to bring into the spotlight the fight against colon cancer.

The image shows the number of people who survive 5 years or longer after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. (64.7%)

When we launched Be Seen, Get Screened in March 2014, we wanted to create a place where physicians, patients and advocates could come together to learn about the importance of colon cancer screening and share it with people who may be ignoring it.