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The Colorectal Cancer Provider Outreach Program offers help for patients who need it By Kelly McCormick
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Kelly McCormick is Digital/Managing Editor of PE GI Journal and Director of Marketing at PE GI Solutions.
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cancer diagnosis can be a confusing and overwhelming experience for a patient. Gastroenterologist Brian Dooreck, MD, has seen this dynamic firsthand. “When receiving their diagnosis, patients don’t hear anything after ‘cancer.’ It’s a scary, dark place to be,” says Dr. Dooreck. Even after more than 15 years in the field, these difficulties have not been lost on him. It is one of the hardest diagnoses a person can hear. It takes time to process. It takes time to understand what it all means and what the next steps are. It is Dr. Dooreck’s expertise as a gastroenterologist and his drive to help patients post-diagnosis that led him to create the Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Provider Outreach Program, a groundbreaking tool to help patients post-diagnosis.
