The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a warning for people taking aspirin or painkillers to try to prevent colon cancer. Research suggests that people at average risk for colon cancer put themselves at a greater risk of bleeding and other potential health problems by taking aspirin.

The STF panel, which evaluates clinical research for its preventive value, says consuming over 300 milligrams a day of aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increases the possibility of stroke, intestinal bleeding, or kidney failure

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and experts say that people who eat a "rainbow" of foods can reduce their chances of developing colorectal cancer. Since colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in the United States and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, researchers say it pays to know how to avoid it.

While many Americans know which foods to eat to help keep their hearts healthy they often don't know how to eat to protect their colons, Lynn Goldstein, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., from the Jay Monahan Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, said in a statement

According to researchers and cancer experts, screening and new therapies seem to be paying off. Cancer deaths have declined in the United States for the second year in a row, suggesting that decades of research into prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment seem to be having a positive effect. However, in comparison, cancer rates in the U.K. continue to rise.

A study by the National Cancer Society found that at least 3,000 fewer people died of cancer in the United States in 2004 than in 2003, a decrease that continues despite a population that's growing in numbers and in age

According to a review of U.S. death certificates by the American Cancer Society, there has been a decline in cancer deaths in the United States for a second straight year. The statistics showed that there was a fall of nearly 369 deaths from 2002 to 2003.

The fall from 2003 to 2004 was 3,014, though very little, was almost more than eight times greater than the first annual decline in total cancer deaths since 1930

According to the latest American Cancer Society (ACS) report, deaths due to cancer are down for the second consecutive year.

The "Cancer Statistics 2007" published report found that less people died of cancer in 2003 than in 2004. The reported decline showed a total of 3,013 fewer cancer deaths in 2004