23 Year Old Survivor of Colon Cancer Creates 40 Foot Colon

(The following was reprinted from a website called "The Colon Club". This is a nonprofit organization that increases awareness around Colon Cancer in people who are younger than 50.)


The Colon Club was founded in 2003 by Molly McMaster, 28, a colon cancer survivor who was diagnosed on her 23rd birthday, and Hannah Vogler, 30, whose cousin and Molly's friend, Amanda Sherwood Roberts, died of the disease at the age of 27. Our main goal is to educate as many people as possible, as early as possible, about colorectal cancer in interesting and out-of-the-box ways. Our wishes are for people to have "colon talk" in their everyday lives, to know the risk factors and symptoms, and to get screened when it is appropriate for them.

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On the "Today" show in November of 2001, Katie Couric told Molly that if she came up with something crazy for National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March, the "Today" show would cover it. The wheels started turning, and one day in the shower Molly came up with the idea to build the Colossal Colon®!
“Coco,” as the Colossal Colon® is affectionately known, is a 40-foot long, 4-foot tall oversized model of the human colon that is designed to educate about colorectal cancer and other diseases of the colon. Visitors who crawl through the Colossal Colon® will see Crohn's disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis, hemorrhoids, cancerous and non-cancerous polyps, and various stages of colon cancer.
The Colon Club’s goal is to educate younger people about colorectal cancer, and the Colossal Colon is the perfect educational tool to do just that. Coco gets everyone talking about colorectal cancer, which is one of the first steps in eliminating it. Adults and children alike can crawl through or look through windows to check out the various features inside Coco.
Since 2002, Coco has visited 74 cities in 34 states and Canada, and has been hosted at hospitals, malls, convention centers, state fairs, museums, a football tournament, an amusement park, and other unique locations. Click here to read more about the history of the Colossal Colon®.

http://www.colonclub.com/crazyprojects.html