Colorectal cancer, the world's third most common malignancy, persists partly because silence surrounds it — a silence that delays diagnosis and undermines prevention. At the University of Chicago Medicine, surgeons and oncologists are reminding us that this disease is neither inevitable nor untreatable, but that confronting it demands both individual awareness and collective will. On the occasion of China's National Healthy Lifestyle Day, their message was quietly urgent: the tools for prevention already exist, and what remains is the harder work of making them accessible to all.