Dress in Blue Day

Colon Cancer Awareness Day

(Photo courtesy of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)

In celebration of Colon Cancer Awareness Month Asmeen Bhatt, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, organized a Dress in Blue Day event March 4 in the Memorial Herman Hospital GI Lab, to show solidarity to the cause.

Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States. and in an effort to raise awareness this year, President Biden declared March 2022 as Colon Cancer Awareness Month and appealed to congress to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).