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Thousands of people develop IBD-related cancer each year.

Many can be treated. 

For others, it's too late. 

These are some of their stories.

SURVIVORS

Sheila Ladow almost skipped her colonoscopy in 2019. When she went in, they found stage III cancer. She is grateful to be alive and to have been cured of colitis by her colectomy. "I am living proof that getting screened can save your life," she says. 

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Scott Bernstein was more alarmed by his worsening IBD symptoms than his doctor was. Scott insisted on getting an extra colonoscopy. This seemingly small act of self-advocacy saved his life: his bowel was almost completely obstructed by a stage III tumor. 

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IN MEMORIAM

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Nicole Obenski was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 19. She had been living with her disease for 15 years, never in full remission, when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer when she was 33. She died at age 35 in 2019. 

Tony Snow, a popular radio and television commentator who served as White House Press Secretary, lost his mother to colon cancer when he was still in high school. Like her, he had  IBD. Colon cancer took his life at age 52. 

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More Memorials

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