Remove the barriers keeping women from addressing colorectal cancer

This may be a month of fun and festivities with St. Patrick’s Day rolling right into March Madness, but it also commemorates two serious topics: women’s history and colorectal awareness. While the overlap may be purely coincidental, the timing appropriately underscores the need for improved awareness, screening and treatment for colorectal cancer, especially among women.

Though overall rates of new colorectal cancer cases have declined in the past decade or two, cases among pe...