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Educate. Empower. Improve Survivorship.

LOVE YOUR BUNS

Educate. Empower. Improve Survivorship.

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Love Your Buns is a non-profit initiative aiming to remove stigma and improve awareness around rectal cancer, its rising incidence and its symptoms.  A growing epidemic in young adults, rectal cancer is easy to remove if caught early, however due to a variety of reasons, young adults are not likely to seek screening options like colonoscopies.  This gap in screening is leading to more advanced disease at diagnosis and more challenging and strenuous treatment.

We're working to Educate young adults to increase awareness of the signs and increasing prevalence of Rectal Cancer and to Empower informed decision making and Improve quality of life in Survivorship

 
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Love Your Buns’
Bun-Loving Blog

Read about Love Your Buns beloved founder Sara DCamp's (1982-2021) journey and come along with us as we build a platform for driving education, awareness and true quality survivorship of rectal cancer.

 
 
 
 
 

Update: Temporarily suspending free LYB chemo pump bags

You may be visiting our page today with interest in requesting one of our free CADD pump bags. This program has been a great source of pride for us as we provide an alternative that has been so appreciated by patients.

Unfortunately there have been many fraudulent attempts to receive multiple free bags and we currently do not have the means to prevent this. As a result, we are temporarily halting this program online, and will only be donating the bags to local cancer centers.

If you are from a cancer center and you are interested in receiving bags for your patients, please contact us and we would love to coordinate with you.

Be aware of the key symptoms

Below are key symptoms for young adults to watch out for and be aware of as red-flags for colorectal cancer. Percentage for each symptom represents how many young adult survey respondents reported the symptom, or number of symptoms presenting at time of diagnosis.

Rectal Cancer Incidence Rates Continue to Climb for Young Adults

Rectal cancer incidence rates have been increasing at an alarming rate for younger adults, now averaging about 4% increase in incidence year over year, and rising disproportionately in the youngest subgroups

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Living with Low Anterior Resection Syndrome (LARS)

A Continuously Improving Guide to Finding “A New Normal” for Patients and Survivors with LARS

Low anterior resection syndrome is a series of ongoing life altering problems individuals may experience after undergoing treatment and surgery for rectal cancer. It has been proven to be a prevalent problem for rectal cancer patients, in fact suggesting that all patients receiving a Low Anterior Resection should be screened for LARS - as noted in scientific literature:

“Given that LARS is such a common problem that often leads to poor quality of life (QOL), all patients should be routinely screened for LARS after sphincter-preserving surgery, and the level of anorectal function should be systematically recorded for benchmarking and quality improvement purposes. Consequently, routine and widespread assessment of LARS is called for.”

Source: Chen, Emmertsen, Laurberg (2015) What Are the Best Questionnaires To Capture Anorectal Function After Surgery in Rectal Cancer?

LARS Patient Survey

Do you have a suggested technique? Please consider completing our LARS Patient Survey. In this survey, which should take about 10-15 minutes - we invite you to share your thoughts and experiences with LARS so we can improve how we can better assist patients looking for information or guidance.