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    That's a big colon
    Jay McQueen
    3/5/2009

    Quite the attraction at Limeridge mall this week.

    It's a 40 foot colon named Coco.

    The display is to help raise awareness during colorectal cancer awareness month.

    It is the 2nd most common form of cancer, next to lung cancer.

    83-hundred people were diagnosed with it in the province last year and 3-thousand people died.

    If found early it has a 90 percent cure rate.

    Juravinski Cancer Centre President Dr. Bill Evans recommends that people over 50 have a fecal occult blood test every two years.

    For more information visit coloncancercheck.ca.

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