Next month is Colon Cancer Awareness Month.
There are a few things going on.

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The Colossal Colon is on tour again - but a much smaller tour than before.
http://www.rollingtorecovery.com/colossalcolon.htm


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CCNetwork has a show on colon cancer on PBS Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds.
(Date to be determined)


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Digestive Disease National Coalition is arranging visits with your legislators
to talk about the need to screen all adults.
March 6 & 7
www.ddnc.org
Please, if you can come, go to their website and sign up and join in. It rocks
the boat to have constituents show up in mass at their Washington DC offices.


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Most cancer centers will have some kind of flyers up or information on colon
cancer especially made available.


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Colorectal Cancer Screening Legislation
17 states and the District of Columbia have colorectal cancer screening
legislation.

California
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Maryland
Missouri
Nevada North Carolina
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Washington, D.C.
West Virginia
Wyoming



If your state isn't on the list it's time to demand that they join the list. If
they are already on the list remember, they are only covering from 50 on up. So
you need to educate them about just who is getting colon cancer.


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Wear Awareness items.

There are two colors for colon cancer. For about 15 years the ribbon has been
brown. A few years ago the American Cancer Society decided they didn't like the
ribbon that patients were wearing at that time and so they changed it to blue.
CCNetwork stayed with brown. We have a few objections to the blue. The main
objection to the brown is that it is of course poop colored. But it is unique
and had the ability to have one recognizable meaning. The blue ribbon is best
known for Internet Freedom of Speech and for Stopping Child Abuse. So there is
no way to have the solidarity that the pink ribbon has for breast cancer, the
light blue ribbon has for prostate cancer, and the red ribbon has for AIDS.
CCNetwork feels strongly that we need to have something that is unmistakeable.
So we had the colon with the 'no' red circle with the line crossing through it
(as in No Smoking, etc). It is recognizable. We have put it on some of the
tshirts at CafePress and can put it on anything else you want.

http://www.colorectal-cancer.net/individual.htm
Go to this page and click on the icon near the bottom that says CafePress in its
lower right hand corner.

So wear the brown ribbon. Wear the blue ribbon. But wear something and tell
someone.


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Colon Cancer Challenge Race March 13, 2005 NYC Central Park
http://www.coloncancerchallenge.org/
But be aware that money that goes to this will strengthen keeping the screening
age at 50.

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Scope It Out 5k Run/Walk for CRC AwarenessWashington, DC

Call 703-408-0614 for more information. March 19th

Again though, be an educated consumer. You are supporting the 50 screening age
with any events but CCNetworks. It may sound like sour grapes. But if we
want the right thing to be done we have to not support the wrong goal.


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Advances in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer March 22

Teleconference

Call 800-813-HOPE for more information or register online now!

This is a CancerCare teleconference jointly sponsored by CCNetwork and other
groups.


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Now, what would be really cool, would be each of you hosting a small Mardi Gras
to Stop Colon Cancer party in March. Use viral email marketing (that's when
you send an email notice and ask that the reader send it on to 10 people - or
more) to advertise it and send a PSA to the radio stations.Charge $25 to come.
Encourage party wear and costumes. Hire a DJ or do the music yourself or check
with a local college to see if there is an up and coming DJ who would do it for
free. If you do, we'll send you "Stop Colon Cancer - Moon A Doc"
bumperstickers for each of them. And then we'd have a lot more awareness events
for colon cancer next month.

Priscilla A. Savary
Executive Director
Colorectal Cancer Network
PO Box 182, Kensington MD 20895
301-879-1500
psavary@...
www.colorectal-cancer.net
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