Colon Cancer Lecture

press release: Exact Sciences and Gilda’s Club Madison are partnering to present a public lecture featuring Dr. Dustin Deming, named one of the 2015 Best Doctors in America, as he shares his expertise about innovations in colon cancer detection and treatment.  

Dr. Dustin Deming is a medical oncologist at the UW Carbone Cancer Center specializing in colon cancer research. He was also diagnosed with colon cancer in his early thirties. He offers an interesting take on the colon cancer journey from both the oncologist and patient perspectives.

Dr. Deming was in his early 30s completely healthy as far as he knew and had no family history of cancer. Ironically, he was diagnosed with rectal cancer two weeks after starting a position at the UW Carbone Cancer Center specializing in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers, including colorectal cancer.  He underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments followed by surgery. Following surgery, there was an additional six months of adjuvant chemotherapy.

Dr. Deming fully understands the ways in which a diagnosis of cancer affects a patient.

He now realizes that initially you mostly focus on diagnosis, stage, and treatments for each patient's cancer. Those things are very important, but also important is the emotional impact, sleep, family life, and occupational changes that occur after a diagnosis of cancer.

Being able to help people by sharing his own experiences with cancer is extremely rewarding for Dr. Deming.

The evening will include a tour of the world-class Exact Sciences lab and light refreshments will be provided.  Exact Sciences is the developer, manufacturer and lab service for Cologuard, the only FDA approved, non-invasive colon cancer screening test.  

The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is required.  608.828.8880 or www.gildasclubmadison.org