Survivors needed to help with a CCNetwork online poll

August 10, 2005

Many of you know that the Colorectal Cancer Network is planning to

gather 1000 survivors in March in Washington, D.C. to give attention

to the fact that we need the age 50 reduced to at least 40 for

colonoscopy screening. Most everyone here knows from personal

experience that if you get the polyp, you skip the cancer. But like

in my case, by the time I was diagnosed at 50 in 2001, it was a

crisis.......surgeries, chemo, radiation suddenly became everyday

words in my vocabulary. And now, 4 years later I am about to have

reconstructive surgery in September due to radiation damage.

All of that was avoidable if I had been screened at 40, just like we

are told to get our mammograms and pap smears for breast and ovarian

cancer screening.

Colorectal Cancer Network is trying to gather statistics by way of a

poll in a separate Yahoo Group. We would like to see about 50 new

members a week take this poll. Your identity will not be public

information. My entire family has been screened after seeing what

the side effects of treatments did to me, so I know they will join in

taking the poll, results of which will be used as a tool in March to

prove the point that screening is less expensive and more life saving

at 40 than age 50.

If you or other family and friends would like to learn more about the

ProjectMARCH, please visit:

or

email: Priscilla Savary at ProjectMARCH-owner

Please help us raise awareness so that our children and grandchildren

do not have to go thru what we did.

Louise Bates - 4 year Survivor

Chairperson of Colorectal Cancer Network

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