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Pop Rocks: It's a shame when concert benefits get lost in the crowd

...concert, scheduled for noon-10:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Laura's Backyard Tavern in Evans, benefits colon cancer research.Acts scheduled to perform include Celia Gary, George Croft and the Vellotones, Jesup Dolly, the Palmetto Pickers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-06-05/pop-rocks-its-shame-w
Medicine Today: Colonoscopy is preventative medicine

...effective preventative tests to protect against colon cancer. Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S. and...leading cause of cancer death. If found early, colon cancer has a 90 percent survival rate. However, colon...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/people/2013-01-14/medicine-today-colonoscopy-p
'Gussie' was well ahead of her time

...short skirt and ruffled underwear, has died at age 89.Moran had recently returned from a long hospital stay with colon cancer when she died Wednesday night in her small apartment in Los Angeles, said Jack Neworth, a tennis writer who befriended...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2013-01-18/gussie-was-well-ahea
GHSU genetic counseling clinic tests for cancer risk

...risk of developing other types. Someone who has ovarian cancer could use genetic testing to determine her risk for colon cancer because the two often occur together.Brown said the counseling is similar to a conversation, with Hire asking sometimes...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-12-21/ghsu-genetic-counseling-clin
Boxing elite turn out for Emanuel Steward's memorial service

...star-studded memorial service Tuesday in the Motor City.Steward, the man who made the Kronk Gym famous, died of colon cancer in October at the age of 68.His family took its time to plan a memorial befitting a beloved public figure ? and it...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2012-11-13/boxing-elite-turn-ou
Lydia Project helps breast cancer patients

...a relief."Getting that financial help actually helps to make you physically better, said Connie White, who got colon cancer and couldn't continue working as a custodian at Augusta State University."That helps me focus more on me getting...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/we-think-pink/2012-09-30/lydia-project-helps-b
Faster, cheaper gene sequencing points to greater cancer understanding, GHSU researchers say

...explain why blacks are more likely to get early breast and colon cancer, researchers at Georgia Health Sciences University...answer for why black patients appear to get breast and colon cancers at younger ages than whites and Asians. Looking at...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-11-09/faster-cheaper-gene-sequenci
'Amarillo Slim' helped put poker in spotlight

...of its most recognizable characters, has died. He was 83.Preston's son, Bunky Preston, said he died Sunday of colon cancer while in hospice care in Amarillo, where he lived."He was playing poker until the very, very end," Bunky Preston...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/other-sports/2012-05-01/amarillo-slim-helped
Evans benefit concert honors colon cancer victim

...which ended in 2010 at age 38 from colon cancer.Ryan Walden keeps a video of...and to help other people facing colon cancer.The concert's proceeds went to research and screening programs for colon cancer patients under 50.When Scott...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-06-09/evans-benefit-concert-honors
Sterling M. Bargeron (REIDSVILLE, Ga.)

...family feels exceedingly blessed. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to Dr. Michael Choti's colon cancer research. Contributions in Rev. Bargeron's name can be made payable to Johns Hopkins University and sent to: Michelle...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/obituaries/2011-09-14/sterling-m-bargeron-reidsvill