Rally on Research: Early-Age Onset Colorectal Cancer June 24 – 25, 2021, experts and patient advocates from around the world met virtually to share ideas and forge the path towards a cure for colorectal cancer. Rally on Research: Early-Age Onset CRC Jump to... Abstracts Event History Resources Sponsors Colorectal cancer is no longer a disease that only affects older populations. Early-age onset CRC is colorectal cancer diagnosed in a patient younger than age 50, and commonly referred to as “EAO CRC.” These patients and survivors face issues specific to younger populations, such as sexual health and family planning, as well as impacts to their careers. Virtual Workgroups: Day 1 & 2 Day 1: Patient Advocates Designed to amplify the patient voice, this was an opportunity for patients, caregivers, and clinicians to discuss efforts and challenges to improve patient care for the early-age onset community. Day 2: Research Priorities Day 2 was a global research discussion among scientists who want to work together to advance research to understand and treat early-age onset colorectal cancer. This day was designed to ensure researchers and healthcare providers have time to discuss research needs and bridge gaps from a scientific perspective. Day 1 Intro Day 1 Closing Day 2 Intro Day 2 Closing See all work groups learn more about eao crc Donate to Research We can't make progress and save lives without groundbreaking research. That requires funds from generous supporters like you. Every dollar counts. Make a Donation Abstracts Advocacy COLONTOWN University: Novel CRC Patient Education Resources for Patient Empowerment Nancy Seybold; Manju George, DVM, PhD; Susan Wysoki PALTOWN Development Foundation, United States, COLONTOWN, United States Download Poster Never Too Young: Early-Age Onset Patient and Caregiver Experiences in Canada Elle Doherty, MPH, CHE; Iris Karry Colorectal Cancer Canada, Canada Download Poster Awareness Drives Preventative Screening Coverage for Employees Michael Mancini, Patient Advocate, United States Sharing Actual Patient Experience in Understanding, Searching, Matching, Enrolling, and Participating in Clinical Trials Jessica Buscho, Patient Advocate, United States Download Poster Raising awareness, challenging perceptions and motivating action to address Australia’s rising rates of early-age onset bowel cancer Joni Thomes, Bowel Cancer Australia, Australia Early Age Onset CRC & My Research Advocacy Efforts and Contributions Wenora Johnson, Patient Advocate, United States Download Poster On-Call Allies: A More Tailored Approach to Colorectal Cancer Patient Support Andrea Bauer, Michelle Cappel, Vanessa Ghigliotty, Allison Rosen Patient Advocates, United States Download Poster Improving Quality of Life by Incorporating Properly Trained Ostomy Peers to Provide Education Support and Non-Clinical Care into Treatment Debi Fox, Ostomy 2-1-1, United States Download PDF Scientific Majority of patients undergoing colorectal cancer resection 2010-2018 have not participated in colorectal screening programs Carmen Fong, MD; Dimitri F. Joseph; Ellen Li, MD; Paula Denoya, MD Mount Sinai Hospital, United States Stony Brook University School of Medicine, United States Download Poster Molecular and clinical characterization of Brazilian early-age onset colorectal cancer patients Giovana Tardin Torrezan, Sara Iolanda Oliveira da Silva, Bruna Elisa Katin Kupper, Karina Miranda Santiago, Samuel Aguiar, Maria Nirvana Formiga, Dirce Maria Carraro A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, Brazil Familial Component of Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer in Europe: An Opportunity for Disease Prevention Maria Daca Alvarez, Marc Martí, Antonino Spinelli, Marek Szczepkowski, Wieslaw Tarnowski, Omar Faiz, Kevin Monahan, Silviu-Tiberiu Makkai-Popa, Noel de Miranda, Claire Palles, Sirio Melone, Fernando Jiménez, Elena Hurtado, Marta Jiménez, IsabelPrieto, Araceli Ballestero, José A. Alcazar, Alfredo Vivas, Lorena Brandáriz, Irene López, Edurne Álvaro, Teresa Ocaña, Lorena Moreno, Sabela Carballal, Leticia Moreira, Maria Pellisé, Andreana N. Holowatyj, José Perea, Francesc Balaguer Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain Hospital Universitario Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Hospital Humanitas, Milan, Italy Bielanski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland Orlowski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland St. Mark’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom West Middlesex University Hospital, London, United Kingdom Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo, Vizcaya, Spain Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Spain Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain Hospital Universitario General de Villalba, Madrid, Spain Hospital MD Anderson, Madrid, Spain Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid, Spain Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain Download Slides Comparative analysis of tumor characteristics and oncologic outcomes of patients with early-versus late-onset rectal cancer Sara Tamburello, Caterina Foppa, Michele Carvello, Luigi Laghi, Laura Poliani, Armando Santoro, Valeria Smiroldo, Cristiana Bonifacio, Marco Montorsi, Annalisa Maroli, Antonino Spinelli IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy Download Poster Is early-onset colorectal cancer different according to disease location? Analysis of tumor characteristics, risk factors and clinical outcomes of 385 genetically tested patients Caterina Foppa, Sara Tamburello, Michele Carvello, Luigi Laghi, Laura Poliani, Armando Santoro, Valeria Smiroldo, Cristiana Bonifacio, Annalisa Maroli, Antonino Spinelli IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy Download Poster Characterizing the burden of early onset colorectal cancers in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis Nicholas Matovu, Helen G. Coleman, Chris R. Cardwell, Ines Mesa-Eguiagaray, Evropi Theodoratou, Charlene M. McShane; Centre for Public Health Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Download Poster Sexual dysfunction among young adult colorectal cancer survivors Julia Stal, BA; Serena Yi, BSc.; Sally Cohen-Cutler, MD, MS; Phuong Gallagher, BS; Afsaneh Barzi, MD, PhD; David R. Freyer, DO, MS; Jonathan N. Kaslander, MArch; Martina Anto-Ocrah, PhD; Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD; Kimberly A. Miller, PhD, MPH Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Cancer and Blood Disease Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA The Colon Club, USA Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA Departments of Emergency Medicine, ObGyn, and Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA Division of Oncology, University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California, USA Department of Dermatology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Download Poster Genetic analysis of SMAD4 C-terminal domain in patients with microsatellite stable early-age onset colorectal cancer Jovana Despotovic, Tamara Babic, Zoran Krivokapic, Aleksandra Nikolic Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia First Surgical Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia Establishing a Coordinated Clinical Center for Young Onset Colorectal Cancer Melissa Lumish, Lerie Palmaira, Joseph Bacani, Asha Krishnan, Jill Weiss, Rosemary Semler, Anne Casson, Ashley Arkema, Jeanne Carter, Christian Nelson, John Mulhall, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Zsofia Stadler, Robin Mendelsohn, Andrea Cercek Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States Download Poster Sugar-sweetened beverage intake in adulthood and adolescence and risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women Jinhee Hur, Ebunoluwa Otegbeye, Hee-Kyung Joh, Katharina Nimptsch, Kimmie Ng, Shuji Ogino, Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Andrew T.Chan, Walter C. Willett, Kana Wu, Edward Giovannucci, Yin Cao Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, United States Department of Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea Molecular Epidemiology Research Group, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Germany Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, United States Program in Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, United States Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, United States Methylated Septin9 (mSEPT9) is a promising biomarker for the early detection and screening of early-onset colorectal cancer Holli A. Loomans-Kropp, Yurong Song, Manish Gala, Aparna R. Parikh, Emily Van Seventer, Rocio Alvarez, Megan P. Hitchins, Robert H. Shoemaker, Asad Umar National Cancer Institute, United States Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, United States Massachusetts General Hospital, United States Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, United States Genetics of early onset colorectal cancers Helen Curley, Silver Makepeace, Sarah Briggs, Lynn Martin, Ian Tomlinson, Claire Palles Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, IGMM, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Download Poster History of the Event In 2019, Dr. José Perea, a colorectal cancer researcher in Madrid, Spain, shared his vision for an international research symposium that would bring together the sharpest minds focused on early-onset colorectal cancer (also called EAO CRC) with Fight CRC. A strong partnership was formed and the inaugural EAO CRC International Symposium was developed. The initial event in Denver, Colorado hosted 45 attendees from 4 countries. From this event, the Fight CRC EAO CRC Workgroup was formed. In 2020, the 2nd-annual symposium became a virtual event and grew to more than 500 registrants from 17 countries. In planning for our third year, our vision grew bigger. We wanted to include the patient voice in discussions and build a bridge between researchers, clinicians, and advocates. We felt it was imperative to create an engaging space to listen and learn from one another. To reflect our vision and growth, we renamed the annual event to Rally on Research. In 2021, we will rally to continue discussing EAO CRC and paving a collaborative path forward. learn about eao crc workgroup Watch the 2020 Event Resources Program Documents Speaker and Moderator Bios Advocacy and Scientific Abstracts Resources Survivorship Care Planning Clinical Trial Finder Resource Library United Ostomy Associations of America Support Group Finder Ostomy 2-1-1 Living with Cancer: A Report on the Patient Experience Organizations and Programs American Cancer Society Bowel Cancer Australia Bowel Cancer UK Colorectal Cancer Canada Colorectal Cancer Canada Never Too Young Patient & Caregiver Survey Report Colorectal Cancer Resource and Action Network (Canada) Digestive Cancers Europe Europa Colon Italia Onlus Lynch Syndrome Ireland Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) Funding Entities CDC – CRCCP CDC Colorectal Cancer Resources, including Screen for Life “Birds and the Bums” PSA focused on screening at age 45 Department of Defense – Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) National Cancer Institute Funding Opportunities NCI and Cancer Research UK Cancer Grand Challenges Thank You to Our Sponsors International Advocacy and Research Partners Back to Top