Bayhealth hosts Go Pink! Health Fair Oct. 3
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Bayhealth will host the Third Annual Go Pink! event to increase awareness of breast health for women and men throughout the region.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, Bayhealth will host a health fair focusing on breast health at the Women’s Center, located at 540 S. Governors Ave., Dover. Special attractions include free clinical breast exams, information on available screening, treatment and survivorship programs, educational opportunities and a bake sale. Bake sale proceeds will be donated to Bayhealth’s Cancer Screening Assistance Fund to provide imaging services to uninsured patients in lower Delaware.
The Women’s Mobile Health Screening, LLC also will offer mammogram screenings. To make an appointment or for more information, call Laura at 888-672-9647.
During October, Bayhealth will offer additional $15 low-cost mammograms to uninsured and underinsured patients from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesdays, Oct. 8, 15 and 22, at the Women’s Center at Dover, Women’s Wellness Center at Milford and Middletown Medical center. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Bayhealth’s Breast Care Coordinator at 744-6773. Monthly low-cost mammograms are offered on the third Wednesday of each month.
Additionally, remaining Go Pink! T-shirts will be available to purchase for a donation of $10 or more. Sale proceeds after expenses will be divided between the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition and breast screenings and education programs available through Bayhealth Oncology Services.
For more information or to order Go Pink T-shirts, call Cristal at 674-2420.
This year’s vendors will include: Bayhealth’s Women’s Center, Education Department, Physical Therapy, Cancer Screening Nurse Navigator, Diagnostic Imaging, Care Management, Lifestyles Fitness Center, Women’s Mobile Health Screening Van, American Cancer Society, Cancer Resource Center, American Heart Association, Blood Bank of Delaware, The Wellness Community, Delaware Division of Public Health, Halpern Eye Associates and the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
Dover salon hosts fifth annual benefit
The Upper Cut Salon, located in the Edgehill Shopping Center in Dover, will host its Fifth Annual Breast Cancer Benefit from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at the salon on Route 13.
All proceeds that day will go to a local breast cancer survivor. There also will be a silent auction, raffles, refreshments, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition representatives on site to answer any questions and a mammogram van on site (call for details).
To schedule an appointment, call 736-1661.
Scrapbooking event set for Oct. 4
A Scrap’n Pink All Day Crop, promoting Breast Cancer Awareness, will be held from 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Microtel Inn Meeting Room, 1703 E. Lebanon Road, Dover, near Dover Air Force Base.
Cost is $35 per person, which includes continental breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks all day. There will be goodie bags, make-n-takes, a beginner scrapbooker class, games and door prizes.
Wear a pink shirt and a $1 of the registration cost will be donated to the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
For more information and registration, call 302-465-1722.
Breast Cancer Coalition offers trip to state part, lecture
The Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition will host its next event in the Nurture With Nature Series at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, at Trap Pond State Park in Laurel. Come and explore the northern most stand of baldcypress trees in the United States. Glimpse native animal and plant species as we explore the natural beauty of the wetland forest. Participants will explore the swamp on a relaxing pontoon boat.
“The History of Breast Cancer” will be held Monday, Oct. 20, with a lecture by Dr. Diana Dickson-Witmer, M.D., FACS, a breast surgeon and associate director of Christiana Care Breast Center. Dickson-Witmer will discuss breast cancer through the ages, from Egyptian times to the present and will examine the ways breast cancer was viewed more than 2,000 years ago as a systemic disease and how 100 years ago it was viewed exclusively as a local disease. Now in 2008 we find partial truths in both ways of thinking.
Lecture will be held in Dover exact location to be announced.
For more information, call Lois at the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition at 672-6435 or email lwilkinson@debreastcancer.org.
Bayhealth offers cancer symposium series
Bayhealth Cancer Centers are offering a series of question and answer symposiums for patients and families wanting more information on specific cancer related topics.
Symposiums will be held at both Kent General and Milford Memorial hospitals with the following schedule.
Kent General Hospital meetings will be held in General Foods Conference Centers 3 and 4.
Thursday, Oct. 16 – Follow-up After Treatment: Cancer Survivorship
Tuesday, Nov. 11 – Cancer Screening: What you should know
Thursday, Dec. 18 – Chemotherapy: What to expect
Milford Memorial Hospital meetings will be held in Room A of the Cancer Center at Milford.
Tuesday, Oct. 14 – Chemotherapy: What to expect
Thursday, Nov. 20 – How and When to Talk about Pain
Tuesday, Dec. 9 – What is a Clinical Trial?
Registration is required for all symposiums.
For more information or to register, call Richelle Hamblin at 430-5134.
Women’s conference to be held at Calvary Baptist
Calvary Baptist Church, Fulton and Queen streets, Dover, will host its 2008 women’s conference from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, with a continental breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m.
The theme of the conference is “Inspired to Live Healthy.” October is Domestic Violence and Breast Cancer awareness months. The women of Calvary want to share this important information with the community. All are welcome men and women.
Childcare is available but space is limited. To register, call 697-3190.
For more information, call the Rev. Bridget Avant at 697-3190 or Sister Barbara Ford at 736-6554.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To publicize an event benefiting breast cancer research or awareness, email maureen.raitz@doverpost.com.
