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Hannah Vogler
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hannahvogler@colondar.com



YOUNG COLORECTAL CANCER SURVIVOR
EDUCATES OTHERS IN UNCONVENTIONAL WAY:
TAMMY FIGG, 29, IS MISS OCTOBER IN 2005 COLONDAR


Tammy Figg was only 27 years old when she was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer. Now 29 and cancer-free for over a year, she is going to extraordinary lengths to educate others about the disease that could have taken her life.

Tammy is featured as Miss October in the 2005 Colondar – a 12-month wall calendar of beautiful young female colorectal cancer survivors. Each month of the 2005 Colondar features a young woman along with a short biography chronicling her individual experience with colorectal cancer.

The 2005 Colondar is the newest project of The Colon Club, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating about colorectal cancer in out-of-the-box ways. Tammy first “met” Molly McMaster, co-founder of The Colon Club, when she found Molly’s website and signed the online guestbook.

“We wrote back and forth several times and, earlier this year, Molly emailed to ask if I would be interested in modeling for the Colondar,” said Tammy. “I was so excited to have the opportunity to participate in such a great project. It was a little bit strange for me to be posing in my bathing suit, but it is my hope that someone’s life will be saved because of the Colondar.”

That is the wish of all of the Colondar models. In July, Tammy came together with eleven other young survivors when they all flew to upstate New York for the 2005 Colondar photo shoot. “It was great to meet so many other young women who have been through the same thing I went through. I think we were all a little bit nervous at first, but we left feeling like we had done something that might save someone