If you have completed your colorectal cancer treatment within the past two years, researchers at the University of Texas need your help.

Led by Nynikka Palmer, a doctoral student at the University of Texas School of Public Health, a study will explore the goals and plans colorectal cancer survivors have for their health after their treatment is over.

Learn more about the survey or sign up. Read the rest of this entry »

Put on those sneakers and take a walk!

Today is National Start Walking Day.  Not only can regular walking reduce risk for heart disease, it can be part of an exercise program to prevent colorectal cancer and support survivorship.

Thirty minutes of walking at a moderate pace has been shown to reduce risk of getting colorectal cancer.  Plus exercise after surgery for stage III colon cancer reduced the chances of its coming back. Read the rest of this entry »

You may know this already, but we have now more proof that physically activity reduces significantly your risk of tumor recurrence.

The study conducted by Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute began in January 1986, included 668 men who’d been treated for stage I, stage II or stage III colon cancer that had not spread (nonmetastatic cancer). Read the rest of this entry »

Nancy Kerrigan

After the football and the turkey, tune in Kaleidoscope on Thanksgiving.  C3 is part of the show!

Featuring cancer survivors Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, and Olivia Newton-John, Kaleidoscope focuses on women and cancer, raising awareness of how cancer affects women and providing strength to triumph over it.

Taped before an audience almost entirely of cancer survivors, Kaleidoscope will air at 4 p.m. EST, Thursday, November 26, Thanksgiving Day on FOX.

Watch for the more than 200 C3 cancer survivors and their families who were at the taping in the Verizon Center. Read the rest of this entry »

Kimberly and Cecil

Kimberly Wright and Cecil Bradstreet  are being married on December 26, a date they chose because it falls in a free week between Kimberly’s tenth and eleventh chemotherapy treatments.

They won a holiday dream wedding from WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina, chosen by online voters.  Cecil wrote their story for the WIS contest as a surprise for Kimberly who was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer during emergency surgery on July 1. Read the rest of this entry »