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Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. With advances in early cancer detection, multi-modality therapy and surgical techniques, the overall 5-year survival for colorectal cancer across all stages now averages 65% [1]. As a result, there are more than 1.2 million colon or rectal cancer survivors currently living in the United States [2, 3] and with this rapidly growing population of survivors, there is an increasing awareness that a more comprehensive cancer care management protocol needs to expand in order to account for the needs of colorectal cancer survivors and to equate the impact of treatment on quality of life outcomes.

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