Colon Cancer Test Kits Available Free Through May 31st

(KNSI) – CentraCare is offering free take home colon cancer screening kits until May 31st.

They will be provided at several area locations, including the St. Cloud Hospital Pharmacy drive-up window, Coborn Healing Center at CentraCare Plaza in St. Cloud, clinic labs in Eden Valley and Richmond, and the Sauk Centre Hospital registration desk.

A full list of sites is below.

• Baxter Clinic Registration Desk

• Benson Hospital Registration Desk

• Coborn Healing Center at CentraCare Plaza, St. Cloud

• Eden Valley Clinic Laboratory

• Long Prairie Clinic Registration Desk

• Monticello Specialty Clinic (2nd Floor)

• Paynesville Laboratory

• Redwood Registration Desk

• Richmond Clinic Laboratory

• Sauk Centre Hospital Registration Desk

• St. Cloud Hospital Pharmacy Drive-up Window

• Willmar Cancer Center

CentraCare says immunochemical fecal occult blood tests are not a substitute for colonoscopies, which remain the best way to uncover colorectal cancer. The kits are free for people age 45 or older.

Colon and rectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death for both men and women, but also one of the most preventable. CentraCare says that 70 percent of people who get colon cancer have no family history.

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