Saturday, April 19, 2003

This ride may be a little bumpy

Attention! Residents of Little Rock, Arkansas! Be on the lookout for "a 40-foot-long replica of the human colon winding its way through" your city!

"We're trying to educate as many people as we can so nobody has to go through what we had to go through," said Bernie Sherwood, organizer of the "Colossal Colon" exhibit, which is part of the National Cancer Education Tour. Bernie's daughter, Amanda Sherwood Roberts, died of colon cancer last year. The exhibit was created in her honor.

"The 'Colossal Colon' is designed for children and adults to crawl through, and allows visitors to see different stages of the disease, from polyps to full-blown cancer."

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