October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but for many, awareness is not enough anymore. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, aside from skin cancer. About 1 in 8 women in the United States (between 12 and 13%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. Breast cancer is a disease that affects everyone, and women and men across the country are doing extraordinary things to battle this disease including setting a deadline to eradicate breast cancer.
On today's program, join host Elisa Parker with special guests Fran Visco, President of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, Cathy Anderson-Meyers, founder of the Barbara Schmidt Millar Women's Triathlon, and hear the stories of the courageous women currently battling the disease or are among the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States.
Fran Visco is the first president of NBCC. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Fran as one of three members of the President's Cancer Panel, and she was the first consumer to chair the Integration Panel of the Department of Defense Peer-Review Breast Cancer Research Program. She co-chaired the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer and served on the National Cancer Policy Board. Fran has testified before congressional committees, has lectured throughout the United States and internationally on the politics of breast cancer and women's health advocacy issues, and has been a frequent guest on national television discussing women's health. Fran is a more than 20-year breast cancer survivor.
Cathy Anderson-Meyers is the founder of the Barbara Schmidt Millar "Celebration of Life" Women's Triathlon in Nevada City, California. In it's sixteenth year, the event helps raise funds for the Breast Imagining Center at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and a scholarship for female high school graduates in Nevada County pursuing an education in the healthcare profession, in addition to educating women about breast cancer and making healthy choices. Last month, over 400 women participated in this year's triathlon. See Jane Do was there to capture the powerful stories of these women.
Susie Miller-Reid was both a single mother and a self-proclaimed workaholic when she learned that she had breast cancer ten years ago. Susie's daughter Reema Al-Zaban has found an outlet for dealing with her mother's illness in a college photography class, for which she documented her mother's journey through cancer in a powerful photo series.
Stephanie Ramirez is a twenty-three year old graduate of UC Santa Cruz. Like Reema, she turned to multi-media to document her mother's journey with breast cancer. Hear an excerpt from Stephanie's upcoming film Love of My Life, which was featured in the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Don't miss today's show Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, from 1-2pm on KVMR 89.5FM or online at www.kvmr.org.
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I missed the show but it looks amazing from your description. Bummer.
Posted by: Natural Cosmetics | October 10, 2010 at 01:56 PM