• National Colon Cancer Awareness Month is an annual celebration observed in the United States during the month of March, to increase awareness of colorectal...
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  • National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is an annual national health campaign organized by major childhood cancer organizations to increase awareness...
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  • Awareness Month (United Kingdom) Irish-American Heritage Month Mustache March National Colon Cancer Awareness Month Women's History Month Youth Art Month Arab...
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    Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the...
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  • This is a partial list of awareness ribbons. The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern. Since many advocacy groups have...
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  • Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (Global) Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month Stomach Cancer Awareness Month Dinovember Native American Heritage Month COPD...
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    linked to gluten sensitivity. May has been designated as "Coeliac Awareness Month" by several coeliac organisations. Speaking generally, the various...
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  • prevention efforts. The organization also promotes the National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month observed in March of every year, and the Dress in Blue...
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  • 11th President of the Philippines (1986–1992); died after a 16-month battle with colon cancer. Dana Dawson (1974–2010; aged 36), American actress and singer...
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    Felix Burda Foundation (category Cancer fundraisers)
    colorectal cancer. Among its most well-known initiatives is the "Darmkrebsmonat" or "Colon Cancer Month" in March. In 2001 Felix Burda died of colon cancer at...
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    month that marks the end of the honey collection season for many beekeepers in the United States. The awareness month was initiated by The National Honey...
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  • Blue ribbon (category Awareness ribbon)
    prostate cancer awareness, a royal blue ribbon is the symbol of mesothelioma awareness, and a dark blue ribbon is the symbol of colorectal cancer (colon cancer...
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    Estep K, et al. (August 2016). "Physical activity and risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and ischemic stroke events: systematic...
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  • National Hispanic Heritage Month (Spanish: Mes nacional de la herencia hispana) is annually celebrated from September 15 to October 15 in the United States...
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  • support of specific types of cancer. The American Cancer Society began promoting October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the United States in the 1980s...
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  • the Colon Cancer Alliance in an effort to help "wipe out" colon cancer. The company reports that during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness month it reached...
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    Cowden syndrome (category Hereditary cancers)
    squamous cell carcinomas of the skin (4%), and the remaining from the colon, uterus, or others (1%). As Cowden's disease is a multi-system disorder...
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  • promoted as a cancer therapy. According to the American Cancer Society, "available scientific evidence does not support claims that colon therapy is effective...
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    Mother's Day (United States) (category Holidays and observances by scheduling (nth weekday of the month))
    postcards to their mothers, Hering went on to be a vocal advocate for a national Mother's Day for the next decade. As Hering stated in a 1941 issue of Scholastic:...
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    sites of primary cancer which metastasize to the brain are lung, breast, colon, kidney, and skin cancer. Brain metastases can occur months or even years...
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    ovarian cancer. Ovarian and endometrial cancer develop simultaneously in 20% of people. Endometrial cancer nearly always develops before colon cancer, on...
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  • Oncocare (category Cancer hospitals)
    Morgan Tsvangirai, a prominent politician who had been diagnosed with cancer of the colon and had been receiving treatment in South Africa, to approach Oncocare...
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  • Month South Asian Heritage Month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Haitian Heritage Month Afro-Colombian Day Black Awareness Day, Brazil Compton, Wayde...
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    inspired many others to get checked as well: "Katie Couric's televised colon cancer awareness campaign was temporarily associated with an increase in colonoscopy...
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    Patriots' Day (category Holidays and observances by scheduling (nth weekday of the month))
    (RI) Women's Equality Day (36) September Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Labor Day (federal) Brazilian Day (NY, cultural)...
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    used to reduce colon and rectal polyps in people with familial adenomatous polyposis, but it is not known if it decreases rates of cancer, so it is not...
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    Whereas public awareness of the importance of the Medal of Honor has declined in recent years; and Whereas the designation of National Medal of Honor...
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  • Filipino American History Month (FAHM) is celebrated in the United States during the month of October. In 1991, Filipino American National Historical Society...
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    John Andretti (category Deaths from cancer in North Carolina)
    Ministries for the "Steer Clear of Cancer" campaign, to raise donations for the foundation during Colon Cancer Awareness Month. (key) (Races in bold indicate...
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  • 2013). "Minnesota takes aim at colon cancer with cheeky new ad campaign: March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Commuters in the Twin Cities...
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