How Common Is Colon Cancer? Taking A Look At The Silent Killer

CBS Los Angeles

December 7, 2022

After actress Kirstie Alley's cause of death was revealed to be colorectal cancer on Tuesday, health officials have taken to warning the public about the silent killer, which has been the second most cause of death from cancer this year.

Alley had just recently received the diagnosis before she died on Monday, after experiencing a number of symptoms of the disease more commonly referred to as colon cancer.

For Melisa Ursini, Alley's story is all too familiar. After repeat trips to urgent care, in which her symptoms never seemed to improve, she was diagnosed with colon cancer at 37-years-old.

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