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Category: Cancer Related Information

  • Colon Cancer Awareness Month

    I’m the guest blogger over at Workout Mommy who was kind enough to ask if I would write something to encourage everyone to be aware of the signs and symptoms of Colon Cancer in honor of Colon Cancer Awareness Month. I had no idea that she was also touched by this horrible disease and lost…

  • Colon Cancer Awareness Twibbon: Show Your Support

    It’s Colon Cancer Awareness Month, and Fight Colorectal Cancer & My Colon Cancer Coach is offering a Twibbon – a small image in the corner of your Twitter or Facebook profile image- to help unite survivors, loved ones and supporters with a symbol of support:  I just switched mine on Twitter – show your support and do it…

  • Colonoscopy: Making People Squeamish Since It’s Invention

    Coming clean about my first colonoscopy (CNN) — In my 20s, after my doctor performed a laparoscopy to examine my uterus and ovaries, he gave me a videotape of the procedure. I dubbed it “Madame Ovary,” threw a party and screened it for my friends. Three years ago, when my doctor sent me to have a…

  • Breast Cancer Fighter Fundraiser

    I am spending my evening at a fundraiser. Too many people have to suffer from cancer. Pink Martinis and Bikinis May Save a Life! The Beach Party fundraiser takes place from noon to closing March 3 at the pub, 44110 Ashburn Shopping Plaza, #196, in Ashburn. To raise funds for Kanoho, the pub will sell pink…

  • March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month!

    March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month! if you are at risk for colon cancer, have any of the symptoms below, or are 50+ please go get screened for Colon Cancer. If caught early, colon cancer is beatable! And more and more young people are battling this horrible disease, so it’s not just a cancer for those…

  • Treating Cancer Comes At A Cost

    Why do I post info about cancer on this blog? Besides the obvious reason: my family’s fight with colon cancer, I share it because if you aren’t thinking about these things now and take care of yourself the best you can – health issues creep up. They may not be as serious as cancer or disease,…

  • A Colonoscopy Can Save Your Life

    Report Affirms Lifesaving Role of Colonoscopy A new study provides what independent researchers call the best evidence yet that colonoscopy — perhaps the most unloved cancerscreening test — prevents deaths. Although many people have assumed that colonoscopy must save lives because it is so often recommended, strong evidence has been lacking until now. In patients tracked for as long as…

  • Team Live Fit and Sore! Chris4Life Scope it Out 5K

    Please support me in my quest to raise money to help fight and support those with colon cancer. I will be running in the Chris4Life Scope it Out 5K in honor of my husband and his gorgeous colon: Scott Hoaglund – on March 25th in DC and need help! Whatever you can manage would be appreciated:http://www.active.com/donate/scopeitout5k2012/SHoaglu2 Here’s…

  • Artist Adam Adamowicz Passes Away from Cancer

    My husband is a geek. No two ways around it – he loves Star Wars, computers, and gaming. I love him for all of that and more — he shared with me the news of one of the artists from one of his current favorite games has died from cancer. I don’t know what kind…

  • Mom Had Labor Induced To Let Dying Father See Daughter

    Such a sad story — colon cancer strikes again, stealing away someone way too soon… Diane Aulger, Mom, Had Labor Induced To Let Dying Father See Daughter.