On November 24, 2020, USA Today included Mediaplanet’s Digestive Health insert, featuring an article authored by Andrea (Andi) Dwyer, advisor to Fight CRC’s Patient Education and Research Team. Through The USA Today, targeted distribution and vast online/social media outlets, this publication, both in print and online, reached an estimated 20 million readers.
Titled Colorectal Cancer Doesn’t Discriminate by Age, the article included Fight CRC’s recommendations from our early-age onset research blueprint. “In June 2020, more than 400 researchers, scientists, and patient or research advocates worldwide joined together virtually to develop pathways based on a 2019 published research blueprint designed to better study causation of early-age onset CRC. The types of questions and risk factors to be studied include diet in childhood; obesity at certain times in life; microbiome within the colon; antibiotic use in childhood; and gene and environment interactions.”
Fight CRC takes our role in the path to a cure seriously. We hope this feature will bring light to the critical-nature of EAO CRC and forge research in the right direction, saving lives along the way.
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February 16th 2023Teri Griege completed an Ironman triathlon in 2009, and less than a month later received a stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis. In this episode of Cancer Horizons, she shared her story.
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‘Let’s Go After This Thing and Fight’ Urges a Long-Time Survivor of Early-Onset CRC
January 27th 2022In this episode of the “Cancer Horizons” podcast, a woman living with colorectal cancer who was diagnosed 14 years ago at age 29 discusses what it was like to be the youngest person in the treatment room, and how she found another community of young survivors.
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