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Your Wake-Up Call (:60)

Your Wake-Up Call

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In this 60-second public service announcement, Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated actor and musician Terrance Howard urges Americans to be screened for colorectal cancer. Mr. Howard has a personal connection to the disease. He talks movingly about losing his mother to colon cancer, saying, "Let my heartbreak be your wake-up-call."

Release Date: 4/1/2011
Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)

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