The Super Colon is coming to a community near you!

Posted by Kate Murphy on February 27th, 2007

Please note: The Super Colon is a project of the Prevent Cancer Foundation and is not affiliated with C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. If you would like to learn more about The Super Colon or to get information about scheduling the exhibit, please visit the Super Colon page on the Prevent Cancer website.

Crawl through it.  Walk through it.  Explore it.  See what’s inside!

The Super Colon is a 20 foot long, 8 foot high inflatable model of the human colon.  Visitors can view healthy colon tissue, non-cancerous colon disease including Crohn’s disease and colitis, polyps, and colon and rectal cancer.

The 2007 Super Colon Tour is scheduled for more than 30 cities during the year.

During March, Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the Super Colon will be at the following sites:

  • March 1-4       Grand Rapids, MI – St. Mary’s Healthcare Health Fair at Hospital and Mall
  • March 2-3       Niles, OH – Humility of Mary Health Partners Health Fair at Mall
  • March 8-9       Houston, TX – VA Hospital
  • March 9-11     Huntington, WV – Edwards Cancer Center Health Fair
  • March 17         Atlanta, GA — Tanner Health System Health Fair at Mall
  • March 20-21   Orlando, FL  — M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
  • March 24-25   St. Cloud, MN – Coborn Cancer Center Health Fair at Mall
  • March 24         Washington, DC – Scope It Out 5K
  • March 26-27    Minneapolis, MN – Get Your Rear In Gear 5K *
  • March 31 – April 1     Topeka, KS — Endoscopy and Surgery Center of Topeka and Kansas Medical Center

Complete 2007 schedule of  Cities and dates for the Super Colon.

 

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3 Responses to “The Super Colon is coming to a community near you!”

  1. November 12, 2007 at 10:54 am, Becca said:

    could you send me a list of the cities and dates for the super colon, the link does not seem to work.
    thank you.

  2. November 14, 2007 at 1:38 pm, Theresa Alexander said:

    I would like to reserve the super colon display for Nov. 8th, 2008. With whom can I make these arrangements?

    Theresa

  3. February 15, 2008 at 11:22 am, Debra Higginbotham said:

    I would like to obtain the Super colon for our colorectal cancer awareness day in March 08. Can we reserve it and what is the expense?

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