Increase Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening

Dear Editor: Congress has an opportunity to stand up for older Americans by closing the Medicare loophole that can create a financial barrier to access lifesaving colonoscopies. While individuals on private health care plans have their colonoscopies covered as a preventive service, a loophole exists that allows individuals on Medicare to be charged for their screening if a polyp is found and removed during the procedure the very action that helps save lives from colorectal cancer.

Firefighters in Prince Georgea s Co. raise funds for colleaguea s cancer treatment new

Firefighters in Prince George's County will be hosting a fundraiser in Edgewater, Maryland, Sunday for a colleague who is battling stage 4 colon cancer - just one cancer that is more commonly diagnosed among firefighters. Jesse McCullough may be a familiar name: He is the same firefighter who rescued a dog from freezing waters in Hyattsville, Maryland, in December 2017.