{"id":64153,"date":"2020-12-14T13:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=64153"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:39:43","slug":"craig-melvins-brother-lawrence-dead-from-colon-cancer-at-age-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/?p=64153&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Craig Melvin\u2019s brother Lawrence dead from colon cancer at age 43."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64155 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-13-at-10.00.40-AM-710x538.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-13-at-10.00.40-AM-710x538.png 710w, https:\/\/nasimword.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-13-at-10.00.40-AM-710x538-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cWe lost our older brother this week,\u201d the \u201cToday\u201d show co-anchor, 41,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CItrhnTBw4X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted Saturday to Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cLawrence Meadows was a husband (to Angela, his childhood sweetheart), father (to Addie, 11 and Lawson, 7) Baptist minister, entrepreneur, and one of the best human beings you would\u2019ve ever known,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/today-s-craig-melvin-reveals-his-brother-has-colon-cancer-t107909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Melvin discussed his brother\u2019s health battle on \u201cToday,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0revealing Lawrence had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at the age of 39.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cYou never want to hear about anyone getting a cancer diagnosis, so when I got a call about someone dear to me, it sent me for quite the spin,\u201d Melvin said at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In October of 2016, doctors had removed a baseball-sized tumor from Lawrence\u2019s abdomen and found the cancer had spread.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cColon cancer robbed him and us of so much,\u201d Melvin continued Saturday. \u201cHe was diagnosed at 39. He died Wednesday at 43.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Melvin also noted how Lawrence \u201cspent a fair amount of time over the past few years raising awareness about the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be keeping up that fight,\u201d Melvin concluded. \u201cWe love you, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Within the US, colorectal cancer is \u201cis the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women,\u201d excluding skin cancers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/colon-rectal-cancer\/about\/key-statistics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the American Cancer Society<\/a>, and is \u201cthe third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men and in women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 \u201cWe lost our older brother this week,\u201d the \u201cToday\u201d show co-anchor, 41,\u00a0posted Saturday to Instagram. \u201cLawrence Meadows was a husband (to Angela, his childhood sweetheart), father (to Addie, 11 and Lawson, 7) Baptist minister, entrepreneur, and one of the best human beings you would\u2019ve ever known,\u201d he continued. 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