Below is a letter I just sent to the Community Director at one of NBC's offices.

If you want this to happen....if you want colon cancer to be made a line in a
history book....you must take action. Call write or email every media person
you can. Make sure all local papers, tv anchors and reporters, local magazines,
and radio stations have this letter or rather one in your words from you. There
is an easy email option on the Association of Community Cancer Centers website.

Will you do this? Choose your town, your county, or your state. Just don't sit
by. We all are suffering enough. It is time that we used the hard won right of
demanding action to end this cancer. Those of us who are Americans know that
we have a long history of standing up and demanding what we want. What we know
is right.

Those here who are not in the United States - shouldn't you be demanding the
same in your own country. It isn't enough to end this here in the States. Any
disease that can be eradicated, must be eradicated for all. On March 6 - stand
in solidarity with us. And while you are at it, send a letter to our President.
It might wake him up to hear that people around the world are expecting him to
do the right thing.

I am pushing. I am demanding. I can't stand to see another Joe lost to a
cancer that should never have been.

If not now, when? If not you, then who?

Priscilla A. Savary
Executive Director
Colorectal Cancer Network
PO Box 182, Kensington MD 20895
301-879-1500
psavary@...
www.colorectal-cancer.net
_________
Screening for All. Colon Cancer for None.
ProjectMARCH -- rarely in life do you get a chance to make major change or save
thousands of lives. March 6, 2006 you can.
http://www.colorectal-cancer.net/projectmarch.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Priscilla Savary
To: jean.nemeti@...
Cc: Priscilla Savary
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: ProjectMARCH - The End of Colon Cancer is in Sight


Once in a lifetime you might get an opportunity to save a live. Few of us do.
Once in a century there might be an opportunity to save thousands of lives.

NOT try. NOT help in raising funds to fight diseases we don't know how to stop.
An TRUE opportunity to save a life...or rather, 56,000 lives. The building is
burning - will you help free the victims from the fire?

Colon cancer is the fire. 56,000 deaths annually for as long as its been
measured is the cost. And you have the power to help force this cancer into
oblivion.

Reporting on the press releases from the pharmaceuticals when a new drug is
marketed that will only prolong life for a little while - that isn't the path.

As a journalist, you either love writing, love knowing the inside story, or
maybe, just maybe, you got into this career because you wanted to uncover the
scandels; ensure freedom of speech; protect the People's right to know; and to
make sure that we all know what we need to know about our country and our lives.

Colon cancer can be stopped. Today. Without another research dollar. Without
new tools or new drugs. And if you are not reporting that side of the story,
shouldn't you ask yourself why not.

Remember this date. Make sure your readers know that for the first time ever
action is being taken by the People of this country that can result in ending
the very first cancer to become eradicated.

March 6, 2006

Gathering in Washington DC will be survivors, caregivers and many others who are
coming to demand screening for all starting at age 18.

Since President Nixon the United States continues to state that it is at war
with cancer. Are we really? If we are doesn't that mean that when we can win
the battle against one of the cancers that we should and must take those actions
to do so? Of course it does. Yet we have ignored for more than a decade that
we can NOW end colon cancer before it starts. No magic pills. No high-tech
expensive equipment. Just a simple colonoscopy every 5 years starting at age 18
and colon cancer would quickly become a distant memory.

Yet we continue to ignore this. Only in recent years has there even been any
effort on the part of major health and cancer organizations to promote screening
for this cancer at all.

What has happened to us? We used to be a country of action. When we could do
something we did.

Polio is a perfect example. At its highest it did not kill nor maim as many
people as colon cancer continues to do annually. If eradicating polio was left
in the same hands (as those who are sort-of, kind-of getting serious about doing
well, at least some colon cancer screening...maybe) polio would still be
devastating the lives of so many of us. Instead, once a vaccine for polio was
developed we put it into use. Were mistakes made? Yes. But rapidly a safe
vaccine was developed and now nearly all children in the United States are given
this vaccine.

We have that "vaccine" for colon cancer. And have had it for decades. It
isn't a shot. (Yet, anyway.) It's a colonoscopy. Not a flexible
sigmoidoscopy which if used to its best ability can't catch any more than 40% of
colon cancers - and never comes close to that number in practice.

Research demonstrating the effectiveness of colonoscopies, however, has shown
that even at its worst showing we can expect 80+% pickup rates. And more often
it picks up well into the 90+$ of colon cancer cases.

So, we know that colon cancer CAN happen at any age. Even kids can get colon
cancer - but nearly all of them, if not all, fall into the hereditary cases and
there is a huge family history already so they are watched like a hawk. Still,
in the nine years that I have been doing this I have come across an 8 year old
and an 11 year old who both died of colon cancer.

We know that diabetes and obesity have some link to colon cancer risk. We know
that these both are on the rise in the under 50 population. We therefore are
fore-armed with the knowledge that if the link is real then the incidence level
in the under 50 population is going to start rising rapidly too. And maybe
already has.

We have the weapon (colonoscopies). We have the ability (screening starting at
age 18). We certainly have the reason (56,000 dead every year, 130,000 -
168,000 newly diagnosed every year).

Are we at war or not?

Are you going to do real journalism and ask these questions or not?

You will be touched by colon cancer. You have already even if that person isn't
telling anyone yet. I in 18 Americans get this.

Whether you report this side of the story because it is news, or whether you do
it because you have the power to help stop the first cancer ever - the reason
doesn't matter. But the result will matter to the 56,000 who are dying this
year. And those who will guaranteed, die next year, and all the years after
that.

Well?

Attached is our proprietary document that backsup what we are saying. Check it
out. You'll see that the best research minds in the world have done the
research that can end this cancer. Then call me. And report on this. Your
readers have a right to know that they are being kept from preventing this
disease. They have a right to know that they have an opportunity to rise up
and demand screening for all. Because here in America, though we rarely
exercise it, we have the right to demand the changes that we want. Don't you
have a responsibility to your readers and listeners to tell the other side of
the story.

And by the way, if you haven't been screened, go schedule a colonoscopy for
yourself. Regardless of your age. You deserve it. We all do.

Peace and good health,

Priscilla A. Savary
Executive Director
Colorectal Cancer Network
PO Box 182, Kensington MD 20895
301-879-1500
psavary@...
www.colorectal-cancer.net
_________
Screening for All. Colon Cancer for None.
ProjectMARCH -- rarely in life do you get a chance to make major change or save
thousands of lives. March 6, 2006 you can.
http://www.colorectal-cancer.net/projectmarch.htm

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