In 2013, I was having irregular bowel movements. I went to my doctor and asked for a colonoscopy, because my father had died of esophageal cancer and I thought it…
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In 2017, Petra Mudrock and her husband were celebrating the birth of their daughter when lingering back pain kept getting worse. Her daughter was just seven weeks old when Petra…
![Faces of Blue Chelsea Halstead | ColonCancerCoalition.org](https://coloncancercoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/MOM_WATERFALL.jpg)
My mother’s name was Vicki – she was passionate, smart and hard working. She would open her door to anyone in need, including animals. She spent her free time with…
![Faces of Blue Britt Waldrop](https://coloncancercoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Britt-Waldrop.jpg)
When I was first diagnosed with Stage IV colorectal cancer at the age of 31, I thought “this is it.” My doctors scheduled a colonoscopy after I came in suffering…
![Faces of Blue Carleen Taylor](https://coloncancercoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Carleen-Taylor-2.jpeg)
Carleen Taylor is wife, mom, caregiver, and young onset colorectal cancer advocate from Columbus, Ohio, whose son was diagnosed with colorectal cancer when he was 22 years-old. She shares Connor’s…
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“Greater Assets,” a colon cancer art exhibit in downtown Tulsa, opened with great success this past March. With an estimated $10,000 raised to increase colon cancer education efforts in the Tulsa-area,…
![Spencer Community Theater "LOMBARDI"](https://coloncancercoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SCT-Lombardi2.jpg)
February 21, 2016 marked the close of LOMBARDI in at Spencer Community Theater in Spencer, Iowa. While the play mainly focused on his career in football with the Green Bay…
![Northside Hospital Grant in Action: Colon Prep Kits! | coloncancercoalition.org](https://coloncancercoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Northside-Hospital-Colon-kits.jpg)
In 2015, the Colon Cancer Coalition awarded Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia a $3,597 grant to create no-cost colon preparation kits for 109 under-served patients prior to their colonoscopies. This…