Happy Mother’s Day

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!

Posted by Kate Murphy on May 9th, 2009
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Your Mother’s Day Gift Can Save Lives

This year 24,680 women — many of them mothers or grandmothers — will die from colon or rectal cancer. Another 71,380 will learn that they are in for the fight of their lives.

These frightening numbers are from the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts and Figures: 2009.

Help us save their lives and the lives of many more mothers with a gift to C3 on Mother’s Day.

Maybe you’ve always struggled to find the perfect present for your mom. This year remember her many gifts to you by helping C3 strengthen colorectal cancer research and advocacy. What could be a better gift?

Your donation may honor your mother or the mother of your children or the woman fighting cancer who is your best friend.  Tell us her name and address, and we’ll let her know that you thought about her on Mother’s Day.

You can also make a gift in memory of your mother. We at C3 are sorry for your loss and grieve with you on a difficult day.

• 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.

Your generosity will help prevent, treat, and finally beat this terrible cancer killer.

Posted by Kate Murphy on May 5th, 2009
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Tags: Mother's Day

C3 President Speaks at NIH Meeting on Expansion of ClinicalTrials.Gov

Carlea Bauman

Carlea Bauman, President of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition spoke today. April 20, 2009, at a public meeting called by the National Institutes of Health to hear input on expansion of its clinical trials registry.

In calling for the ClinicalTrials.Gov database to include results of all clinical trials, Bauman said,

C3:Colorectal Cancer Coalition is committed to providing results of clinical trials that affect patients with colon and rectal cancer fairly and honestly, providing both positive and negative conclusions, and helping patients to understand what the results mean to them in language they can understand.

Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on April 20th, 2009
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Tags: ClinicalTrials.Gov, NIH

Arite Honored During Dialogue for Action

Joe Arite

C3 Director of Policy Joe Arite received the Cancer Prevention Laurel for Advocacy during a luncheon at the the national Dialogue for Action in Baltimore on April 2, 2009

The Prevent Cancer Foundation created the Cancer Prevention Laurel to recognize and celebrate innovators and leaders in the fight against colorectal cancer. Vince Papale, the former Philadelphia Eagles football player and a colorectal cancer survivor, presented the winners with their awards. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on April 10th, 2009
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Chou Awarded 2009 Lisa Fund Grant

Dr. Jeffrey Chou

Jeffrey Chou, M.D.,Ph.D., is the recipient of the 2009 AACR-Colorectal Cancer Coalition Fellows Grant in memory of Lisa Dubow.

Dr. Chou, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at the University of Washington in Seattle, will study how to make colorectal cancer stem cells more vulnerable to the body’s immune system.

The award will be made at the AACR’s 100th Annual Meeting in Denver.  Funds for the grant were raised by C3 through the Lisa Fund. Donations to the fund are targeted for research to develop treatments for patients with late-stage colorectal cancer. Continue reading…

Posted by Kate Murphy on April 7th, 2009
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Tags: colorectal cancer research, immunotherapy, Lisa Dubow. Jeffrey Chou MD PhD