Millions missing out on colon cancer screening

By LAURAN NEERGAARD 
AP Medical Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly half the people who need potentially lifesaving checks for the nation's No. 2 cancer killer - colorectal cancer - miss them, despite years of public efforts to make colon screening as widespread as tests for breast and prostate cancer.

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