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Step 1
If you are over 50 schedule and go to the doctor and get check out. The doctor can find the polyps that lead to colon cancer and stop it before it turns into cancer.
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Step 2
Be healthy. Keep a healthy weight to prevent colon cancer. This also means you have to eat a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables. Get lots of fiber. Also, be active. Get out and exercise everyday. Studies have shown these things greatly help to prevent colon cancer. Do not smoke. This should seem obvious, but many people still smoke even thought they know the dangers of it.
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Step 3
Know your family history. Has anyone in your family had colon cancer, or any other cancer? Let your doctor know any family medical information you have. This will help the doctor to prevent colon cancer by letting him know if you have a genetic disposition to get colon cancer.
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Step 4
Do these things and maybe it will prevent colon cancer. Maybe it won't. But you need to do everything possible to prevent colon cancer and hope that it works. And if you do all these things they will help to prevent other cancers as well.
