Many area people are missing bad news fortunately delivered early for what proves to be much worse news unfortunately coming late. That is, colorectal cancer can be very curable when diagnosed early but very difficult to cure in an advanced stage. And numerous people hereabouts miss detecting the condition early enough to head it off at the pass. Medical authorities say that, despite the availability of routine screening for early signs of even pre-cancerous conditions, a majority of people with colorectal cancer in Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee aren't diagnosed with the condition until it fully develops, then spreads. The Kentucky Cancer Registry says only about 45 percent of colorectal cancer cases diagnosed in the…