The month of March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Dr. Timothy Schirmer, who sees patients in the Specialty Center at Hardin Memorial Hospital, said colon cancer does not have to be deadly, "Colon cancer prevention can be done through colonoscopies and the like, by removing the polyps before they can have a chance to turn into cancer, so I think that's a big difference between many other types of screening programs is that we can actually prevent the cancer."