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  • Encourages advocacy and research to improve screening, diagnosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer.
    C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition

  • 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

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Colorectal - More Stories

Sep 15, 2009

The Internal Flame

BY KAREN PATTERSON

Chronic inflammation causes cancer. Find out how and what's being done about it. 

Jul 08, 2009

Making the Most of Medicare

BY MELISSA GASKILL

More coverage means more people are screened, and colon cancers are caught earlier. 

Nov 26, 2008

Breaking News from ASCO

BY STAFF REPORTS

Updates from the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on liver, kidney, lung, colon, pancreatic and breast cancers.

Nov 11, 2008

Colorectal Cancer, Lung Cancer & Lymphoma

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

New approvals for colorectal, lung, breast, head & neck cancer and lymphoma.

Oct 23, 2008

Kidney Cancer & Prostate Cancer

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

The FDA approves third kidney cancer drug and blood-clotting therapy while delaying review on a prostate cancer vaccine, and one drug edges another in a colorectal cancer clinical trial.

Oct 22, 2008

Treatment Aftershocks

BY RABIYA S. TUMA, PHD

Survivors guided through territory of long-term and late effects.

Oct 22, 2008

Family Ties

BY LAURA BEIL

The individual & family decisions behind testing for genetic cancer risk.

Oct 21, 2008

Home-Brewed Gene Tests

BY DIANE COLE

This article discusses genetic test kits and the types of cancer they test for. 

Oct 19, 2008

Advocating for Others

BY LACEY MEYER

 Colorectal cancer survivors take their message to Congress.