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Patients, visitors and Orlando Health team members will be getting an up close and personal look at what can happen if someone gets colon cancer.<\/p>\n
The Orlando Health Cancer Institute, Orlando Health Colon and Rectal Institute and Orlando Health Digestive Institute are hosting a Colon Cancer Awareness Month exhibit at several Orlando Health hospitals from March 5 through March 30.<\/p>\n
The event will be highlighted by an inflatable colon exhibit that allows visitors to get a first-hand look at the difference between healthy and diseased colon tissue.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Visitors will have a chance to walk through the colon to see various colon issues such as hemorrhoids, polyps, and colon cancer.<\/p>\n
Guests will also have the opportunity to schedule their colonoscopy.<\/p>\n
Free prizes, snacks and games will also be provided.<\/p>\n
Several other Orlando Health facilities will be hosting the exhibition. Locally viewing will be hosted at Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital, Front Entrance\u00a0on Tuesday, March 24\u00a0from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men and women in the United States.<\/p>\n
Screening begins at the age of 45.<\/p>\n
More information on the Orlando Health Colon and Rectal Institute can be found at https:\/\/www.orlandohealth.com\/services-and-specialties\/orlando-health-colon-and-rectal-institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contributed \u00a0 Patients, visitors and Orlando Health team members will be getting an up close and personal look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-195208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}