Dress in Blue on March 5 for Colorectal Cancer Awareness

We’re wearing Blue . . .and you can too!

Dress in Blue Day is March 5, sponsored by the Colon Cancer Alliance.

In celebration of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, advocates are encouraged to raise awareness of colon and rectal cancers by wearing blue and telling their friends and co-workers why screening for colorectal cancer is vitally important.

• Colorectal cancer is preventable, treatable, and beatable.
• Screening can prevent colorectal cancer, and everyone over 50 should be screened.

Nothing blue to wear? We’ve got just what you need.

Posted by Kate Murphy on February 24th, 2010
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Tags: colon cancer alliance, colorectal cancer awareness

Share Your Love and Strength on Valentine’s Day

Is someone you love fighting colon or rectal cancer?

This year instead of candy or flowers, honor their courage with a gift to C3 on Valentine’s Day.

Let them know that you are joining with them and C3 to win the fight against colorectal cancer through research, empowerment, and access.

C3 will mail an acknowledgment of your Valentine gift to the person that you care about with your personal message.

Posted by Kate Murphy on February 12th, 2010
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The State of Colorectal Cancer Screening and Prevention

C3 President Carlea Bauman at the National Press Club

Today, C3 hosted a forum with Olympus in Washington DC to discuss current trends in colorectal cancer screening and prevention.

C3 President, Carlea Bauman, gave keynote remarks at the forum.  Carlea spoke about the frustration that we face at C3 when we receive calls to our Answer Line from individuals looking for assistance finding affordable screening services and we only have a patch-work network of assistance available to them.  Carlea explained that the way to change this is with enactment of a national screening and treatment program, “I look forward to the day where a national program exists so that when these calls come in, we can say, ‘Yes, you can get screened and yes, you can afford it.’”

I spoke on one of the panels about the impact the pending health care reform legislation will have on colorectal screening and why even if health care reform passes we will still need to enact legislation creating a national screening and treatment program for colorectal cancer.  To read the text of my remarks, click here.

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Posted by Catherine Knowles on January 29th, 2010
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Tags: C3 Answer Line, Health Care Reform, HR 1189

C3 and Olympus to Host Forum on Colorectal Cancer Screening and Prevention

A Forum in Washington, DC
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
The National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

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Please join C3, Olympus, and leaders from Congress, the Administration, the gastroenterology and colorectal cancer (CRC) communities, and other health experts to discuss current trends in screening and prevention. The Forum will focus on the need to maintain CRC screening and prevention as a national policy priority, as we work to defeat this beatable disease.

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Posted by Catherine Knowles on January 20th, 2010
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C3 Board Chair Nancy Roach to Sit on Department of Defense Panel

C3 Founder and Board Chair Nancy Roach has been invited to sit on the Department of Defense (DOD) Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) Integration Panel for a one-year term.  The PRCRP Integration Panel reviews research proposals that are submitted to the PRCRP program.

As a member of the Integration Panel, Ms. Roach will help with: (1) formulating a PRCRP vision and funding strategy that best addresses the research gaps for colorectal cancer; and (2) conducting a second-tier review of research proposals that are received by the US Army Medical Research and Material Command PRCRP program.

Ms. Roach issued the following statement after being invited to sit on the PRCRP Integration Panel: “It has long been a dream of mine to get funding through the Department of Defense for colorectal cancer research.  This new funding will support research efforts that investigate new methods of studying early detection, screening and treatment of colorectal cancer as well as attracting new researchers to the field.  It marks an important milestone in the fight against colorectal cancer with research on track to receive its fair share of federal resources, and I am honored to have been asked to sit on the PRCRP Integration Panel and have a role in setting the vision for the colorectal cancer research program.” Continue reading…

Posted by Catherine Knowles on January 18th, 2010
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Tags: Department of Defense