Kang cancer is a form of squamous-celled carcinoma associated with sleeping on the traditional kang heated-brick bed of Tibet and Northern China. [1] The kang bed is a hollow brick platform warmed by an internal coal, charcoal, or dung fire.

May 11, 2024 · Now she’s raising her voice about a major life update: She’s been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. “I was thinking I’d never, ever talk about this,” Kang, 43, tells Fortune (though she’s...

Jan 31, 2025 · As I sit here humbled with a weakened body frame, permanent scars and thin hair after battling and beating Stage 4 colon cancer, I can honestly say I don’t give a sh*t if I win anymore. I just want to authentically live knowing I had a lot of fun being alive.

What Cancer taught me. Weeks following my last doctor’s appointment, I underwent deep, emotional, debilitating pain that traveled throughout my head, heart and body. As much as I tried to combat the emotions filtering through me, I could…

May 11, 2024 · 43-year-old fitness influencer ignored her GI symptoms for a year. Then she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer: ‘It could happen to anyone’

May 28, 2024 · Fitness social media influencer and mom of three Maria Kang, 43, was shocked to learn her occasional stomach pains and bloody stool were because of stage 4 colon cancer instead of hemorrhoids as she mistakenly believed.

Nov 15, 2023 · I have a 3% chance of colon cancer due to my Chek2 mutation, high risk for many others and a 52% chance of breast cancer. My scans were all clean but they found breast cancer in the tissue after my double mastectomy for prevention.

Oct 11, 2024 · Maria Kang, 43, who was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer in November, posted the video on her @mariakangfitness Instagram account in August. According to the American Cancer Society, in 2024...

May 11, 2024 · Now she’s raising her voice about a major life update: She’s been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. “I was thinking I’d never, ever talk about this,” Kang, 43, tells Fortune (though she’s...

Maria M. Kang-Casler (born 1980 in San Francisco, California), is an American fitness advocate, coach, blogger, and founder of the No Excuse Mom movement, a nonprofit organization which promotes a healthy lifestyle, centered on diet and exercise, for mothers.