David A. Greenwald, MD, Director of Clinical Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Each year, more than 50,000 Americans die from colon cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. David A. Greenwald, MD, Director of Clinical Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, The Mount Sinai Hospital, explains why the vast majority of these deaths are preventable, simply by identifying and removing polyps, or small growths, that occur on the lining of the large intestine, also known as the colon.