What you eat can increase your risk for rectal cancer . . . or reduce it.  But race makes a difference too.

Whites had an increased risk of rectal cancer when their diets had lots of refined grains and white potatoes, while African Americans risk was increased with fruit and added sugar.

The North Carolina Colon Cancer Study studied diet patterns and colorectal cancer risk among whites and African Americans with rectal cancer and matched controls.  They identified three major eating patterns and found that risk for rectal cancer differed between the two racial groups. Read the rest of this entry »

National Nurses Week runs from May 6 through May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.

Time for a special thank you to all those very special men and women who held our hands before surgery, hung bags of chemo drugs and watched us to be sure we were OK, told us how to ease nausea and stop diarrhea, and cheered the end of chemo and the beginning of survivorship. Read the rest of this entry »

C3 wishes moms everywhere a Happy Mother’s Day!

Today we especially honor

• Mothers fighting their own colon or rectal cancer.
• Mothers who are taking care of a loved one with cancer.
• Mothers who died from colorectal cancer.

Help us make sure that future mothers don’t have to face the same struggle.

Join our push for prevention and better treatment of colorectal cancer with a gift in honor of your mother.

• You can make a secure gift online for C3′s work.
• Or you might want to donate specifically to the Lisa Fund for colorectal cancer research.

Thank you!

This week a panda gets a colonoscopy, details are reported on swine flu cases, and information about acrylamide in food and cancer risk is reviewed.  The FDA says that the leucovorin shortage has been resolved and supplies are available.

We also found a study that used stereotactic body radiosurgery (SBRS) for tumors from cancer that had spread to the spine.  In other research, the number of lymph nodes recovered during colon and rectal surgery depends on the patient’s age, where the cancer was located, and how long the removed specimen was. Read the rest of this entry »

President Barack Obama

President Obama released his FY 2010 budget request. The budget requests $30.838 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a 1.4 percent increase ($443 million) over the FY 2009 level. This includes $5.15 billion for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) or $181 million more than the FY 2009 funding level. Read the rest of this entry »