WE Have Cancer

Jon Platten was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. Just outside of Washington, D.C. I went to High School at TC Williams High School, if you’ve seen the movie, “Remember the Titans”, that is where I went to High School. I excelled in basketball, football and was terrible (horrific may be a better description of […]

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Matthew Mewhorter is a two year survivor of colorectal cancer. Many in the online community are familiar with Matthew’s drawings as the Cancer Owl. During our interview we discussed his experience being diagnosed and treated for colorectal cancer, his work as an art therapist and how and why he created the Cancer Owl. Lee: Matthew, […]

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Welcome to Episode 56 of The Colon Cancer Podcast. In this episode we remember our dear friend Nathan Allen and share his Christmas greeting, recorded at the Live Your Best Life mCRC symposium last month. We also interviewed David Dachinger and Tamara Green. David is a survivor of head and neck cancer and Tamara is […]

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LEE: Good evening, Jenny. How are you? Thanks for joining me this evening. JENNY: Thanks for having me. I’m doing pretty good. LEE: Good. So we were just chatting before we went live and I’m trying to think: how did I first find out about Jenny? And I thought about it and it was absolutely […]

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Bill Ramey is a 4 year survivor of metastatic colorectal cancer. He stopped by to share his story of how he went from “dead to NED” in six months.

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 Lee:                 Hi Kristina, welcome to the show. How are you doing? Kristina:          Doing great. Thank you so much for having me. Lee:                 Oh, it’s my pleasure. So, I didn’t get a chance to tell you how I found out about your story. I subscribe– Google offers a free service where you can put in different […]

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After completing his fellowship training at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Lieu joined the University of Colorado School of Medicine faculty as an Assistant Professor in July 2011. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Colorado, where he also served as a Chief Medical Resident. He completed his fellowship training […]

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Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt is the Clinical Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center and Senior Physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In his research, Dr. Meyerhardt, who also is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-leader of the Center for Colon and Rectal Cancer at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, focuses primarily on […]

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Country music’s power has always been in its ability to reflect real life, and few artists have a stronger gift for capturing both heartache and hope than Wade Hayes. In the past few years, the singer/songwriter has navigated a complicated journey that has produced some of the most potent songs of his already impressive career. […]

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Country music’s power has always been in its ability to reflect real life, and few artists have a stronger gift for capturing both heartache and hope than Wade Hayes. In the past few years, the singer/songwriter has navigated a complicated journey that has produced some of the most potent songs of his already impressive career. […]

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