When someone collapses, bystanders can save lives using only their hands, pressing on the chest hard and fast without stopping.

First call 911!

Hard and fast chest compressions on the center of the chest can keep someone whose heart has stopped alive until medical help arrives, even without mouth-to-mouth breathing. According to experts, there is enough oxygen remaining in the body to sustain life without rescuers needing to breathe into the victim’s mouth.

In a call to action, the American Heart Association recommends that bystanders untrained in CPR  provide hands-only CPR until emergency medical help arrives.

The hands-only method is much simpler for the public to understand and actually accomplish, even without formal CPR training.

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Can’t be in Central Park for the New York Colon Cancer Challenge on March 28th?

Form a virtual team and help raise funds for colon cancer awareness, prevention, advocacy, and research.

Or join other runners and walkers to participate as an individual or as part of a team. You can also make a gift as a sponsor for a team or an runner.

If you want to run, you’ll have to hurry — the 4 mile and 15K runs are close to capacity and registration will soon close.

In addition to the runs, a 1.7 mile Remembrance and Prevention Walk through the park will begin at 10 am on Sunday, March 28.

After a negative colonoscopy, there is a significantly reduced risk of developing colorectal cancer if the exam was done by a gastroenterologist. Read the rest of this entry »

All this week,  colorectal cancer is the theme for PatientPowerRadio.Org.

Patient Power Radio will be streaming replays of popular Patient Power radio programs focused on colorectal cancer round the clock from March

Listen Andrew Schorr interview colorectal cancer experts and survivors from March 1st through March 5th in celebration of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Read the rest of this entry »

Representatives Granger and Boren have introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives supporting the observance of March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.  Even with advances in screening technology colorectal cancer continues to be the second leading cancer killer of men and women combined.  In 2010, nearly 50,000 people in the United States will die from colorectal cancer.  The real tragedy is that many of these deaths could be prevented if more people took advantage of colorectal cancer screening and early detection.

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