“The actor, who played King T’Challa in Black Panther and baseball legend Jackie Robinson in 42, died of colon cancer at age 43.”
He had had colon cancer for 4 years. When he was diagnosed in 2016, the cancer was in stage III. It progressed to stage IV despite treatments that included surgeries and chemotherapy. Many of his movies were filmed during that time and he was a “true fighter,” his team wrote on his official Instagram page after his death.
Providing community outreach and raising public awareness of the impact of colorectal cancer on our lives and in society.
Join the fight and raise cash to help speed up life-saving research. It’s payback time for those we love.
What does the Colorectal Cancer Alliance bring to the Central MA Community. Public Awareness & Community outreach.
Education through public lectures by physicians and patients.
Information, updates and links on colon cancer via web site.
Fundraising events to support community education and research and treatment at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center.
There are things that we can all do every day to help make this happen.
Seek and embrace the best
Be accountable for our results and resources
Speak out and step up
Work together to achieve our goals
The Colorectal Cancer Alliance of Central Massachusetts provides community outreach and raises public awareness of the impact of colorectal cancer on our lives and in society. Learn More
The incidence of colorectal cancer fell by more than one-third in the United States between 1985 and 2005—mostly because more people were screened for the disease.
The incidence of colorectal cancer fell by more than one-third in the United States between 1985 and 2005—mostly because more people were screened for the disease.
Automated telephone outreach with speech recognition (ATO-SR) is used extensively by health plans. Whether ATO-SR can increase rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is unknown. We randomly allocated 40 000 health plan members to ATO-SR and 40 000 to usual care, of whom 10 432 and 10 506 in the intervention and usual care groups, respectively.
You say that Medicare will cover colonoscopies at no cost to the patient as of January 2011. However, it is not clear whether the 120-month limitation for a repeat asymptomatic colonoscopy will remain, or whether (as many physicians advise) a colonoscopy will be covered after only seven or eight years since the prior one. Also, you speak of the recommendation for colonscopies for people between 50 and 75. Does the coverage not apply for those over 75? — Warren S. Poland, M.D.
