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Hannah Vogler
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hannahvogler@colondar.com



MOLLY MCMASTER POSES FOR THE 2005 COLONDAR,
CONTINUING HER QUEST TO EDUCATE ABOUT COLORECTAL CANCER


Molly McMaster is at it again – and she’s not alone in her latest effort to educate the world about colorectal cancer. Along with 11 other young women, Molly is featured in the 2005 Colondar – a 12-month wall calendar of beautiful young female colorectal cancer survivors.

The 2005 Colondar is the newest project of The Colon Club, a nonprofit organization co-founded by Molly last year. Each month of the 2005 Colondar features a young woman and a short biography chronicling her individual experience with colorectal cancer. Molly is Miss February.

“Last year I met a young woman in Philadelphia named Erika who had been diagnosed with colon cancer at age 22. We chatted for an hour or so and somewhere in the middle of the conversation, the idea came up that it would be fun to make a calendar of young survivors showing their surgical scars. Now, Erika is Miss November!” said Molly. “The timing just seemed to be right, so we decided to make it happen! We also decided to dedicate the 2005 Colondar to Erika because she is so amazing.”

In July of this year, Molly invited eleven other young survivors to travel to her parents’ house on Lake George for the 2005 Colondar photo shoot. “For the first time in my life, I was literally surrounded by other young colorectal cancer survivors – it was very cool. I’ve never even heard of that many of us together in one place,” said Molly. “We really got to know each other – and making the Colondar was almost like a bonus. Now we just have to get as many Colondars as possible out into the world so that we can educate as many people as possible. Educating people