Join us in Times Square on March 1!

What better way to turn on March’s spotlight to colon cancer than an event in NYC’s Times Square!

If you own a smart phone, tweet or use Facebook please join Fight Colorectal Cancer for our One Million Strong kickoff on March 1.

Live in NYC? Even better.

Click here if you live or work near NYC.

Click here if you live elsewhere but still want to help!

Read on to learn how YOU can show the world why YOU are part of One Million Strong.

Times Square. March 1. Be There.

Live or work in NYC? Our team at Fight Colorectal Cancer needs YOU!

Here is the roundup of activities planned for the One Million Strong kickoff on March 1 in Times Square. Come before work, during your lunch break, after work or anytime in between!

Come share your story. Bring a friend, too!

Please register for the Times Square events if you can volunteer or participate. (No costs involved… we need to know how many to expect.)

Sponsors…

A special THANK YOU to our event sponsor, Bayer, and board member David Wicks, Vice President of the NASDAQ MarketSite, for making our One Million Strong kickoff in Times Square a reality!

Not in NYC? Not a problem.

Even if you will not be in NYC on March 1, help us kick off colon cancer awareness month on March 1. Share your story. Speak up. Take action.

• Take the One Million Strong pledge.
• Use our One Million Strong Facebook cover photo.
• “Share” our flyer and encourage your friends and family in NYC to come out to the event!
• Download a Twibbon for your Facebook profile.
• Submit a photo for the One Million Strong Facebook Photo competition.
• Tweet at @fightcrc and use hashtags #1milstrong, #Coloncancer, #Colorectalcancer to get colorectal cancer awareness TRENDING!

About One Million Strong Campaign

Did you know over one million colorectal cancer survivors live in the United States? Our One Million Strong campaign raises awareness of colorectal cancer and encourages action.

We demand a cure!

Take a commitment to courageously raise awareness, be an advocate and encourage others to join the fight against colorectal cancer.

Take the pledge now!

Approximately 80 more participants are needed for a multisite, Phase 3 clinical trial comparing laparoscopic-assisted versus conventional surgery in patients with stage IIA, Stage IIIA or stage IIIB rectal cancer. 

Eligible participants must have completed their pre-surgery chemotherapy (Xelox™ or fluorouracil-based) and/or pre-surgery radiation therapy within the previous 4 weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

Older men with several kinds of cancer–including colon cancer–do as well or better in the Veterans’ Health Administration as men covered by Medicare, according to a new study published by the Journal of Clinical Oncology in an advanced online release.

The Veterans’ Administration is the nation’s largest integrated health system, providing care for 6 million veterans a year who are eligible because of either service-related disabilities or economic disadvantage. The VHA launched a major reorganization in the mid-1990s to improve its quality of care through electronic records, better care coordination and mistake detection, and improved screening. Read the rest of this entry »

Contrary to what is happening for people over fifty, rates of colon and rectal cancer are rising in younger adults.

While new colorectal cancers in older people have fallen consistently since 1985, rates for people under 50 have risen, particularly for rectal cancer.

Even more concerning, young people with colon cancer were diagnosed at later, less curable stages than those 50 or older. Almost two-thirds had a stage III or IV cancer compared to half of people diagnosed at a later age.

In the Archives of Internal Medicine, Nancy You, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and her colleagues ask, “Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer: Is It Time to Pay Attention?”

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Rectal cancer rates are increasing in people under 40, although rates of colon cancer have remained stable in younger people.

It isn’t clear why, but rectal cancer rates in this young group of men and women began increasing in 1984, rising about 3.8 percent a year.

Increases were similar for both sexes and all races. Read the rest of this entry »