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Highlights from the third annual early-age onset colorectal cancer international symposium, Rally on Research: EAO CRC.

Since Fight CRC’s inception, we’ve recognized the need to put the patient voice in all things research, ensuring that science has the community’s best interests in mind.

A well-known antiracism activist and author Ibram X. Kendi, also a stage IV colon cancer survivor, revealed his scars and shared his story through a GQ profile designed to highlight diverse patient populations within colorectal cancer.

The first blog in this series will introduce you to our two clinical trial champions, Maia Walker, Lead Curator of the Fight Colorectal Cancer Trial Finder, and Manju George, Scientific Director of COLONTOWN.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is an example of a disease lacking health equity in the United States. CRC cases and deaths are 20% and 40% higher, respectively, in Black compared to White individuals.

This week on the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast, to kick off Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, we spoke with colon cancer survivor April Schack about what it was like to be diagnosed at age 36 and how she’s working with Fight CRC on a new campaign that aims to raise awareness about the disease, so that no one has to go through what she did.

Although meeting in person was impossible, the research forged ahead, exciting results were presented, and those in the field continued to engage with just as much energy as previous years.