COLON CANCER

Approximately 100,000 people are diagnosed with colon cancer annually, and 50,000 die from the disease each year. “It’s very important to detect colon cancer before it spreads to other organs,” says Alexandre Hageboutros, MD, a 2009 Philadelphia Top Doctor and a medical oncologist at Cooper University Hospital who specializes in colon and rectal cancer. “But the good news is that in the last few years new treatments have doubled the chance of survival.”