Our Favorite Resources for Colorectal

• Offers patient support, a resource center, news, research, advocacy, and events.
  Colon Cancer Alliance

• The Patient Advocate Foundation's Colorectal CareLine offers a toll-free telephone hotline to offer educational resources, direct assistance with access to care issues, and financial aid for select patient needs.
  Colorectal CareLine

• Educates patients and survivors, pushes for policy changes that will improve research and empowers survivors.
  Fight Colorectal Cancer

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Examining a patient’s tumor for predictive markers allows oncologists to know ahead of time whether the tumor is likely to respond to the therapy being considered. Even among patients with the same type of cancer, responses can vary considerably, not only in terms of the drug’s impact on the tumor, but also in terms of the severity of side effects experienced by a patient.

Read "Powers of Prediction" in CURE's Fall 2007 issue for more on predictive markers.