| August 26, 2004
WCRC NEWS
Swim a Mile for Women with Cancer
Join us for the 9th Annual Swim a Mile for Women With
Cancer
Saturday and Sunday, October 2-3, 2004
Mills College, Oakland
For more information call 601.4040 x 180 or email swim@wcrc.org.
Plan on swimming with us. Information, details and answers
to questions about Swim a Mile -- as well as the complete
registration process -- can be found online at www.wcrc.org.
You can pledge
to a specific swimmer online too, as long as the swimmer
is already registered. We have Swim a Mile posters and
brochures all over the Bay Area. We want to express our
great appreciation to Andronico’s Markets, Men’s
Wearhouse, Mills College, Tri-Valley/East Bay Radiation
Oncology Centers, Speedo, East Bay Express and the
San Francisco Chronicle for their great
sponsorship of our Swim A Mile.
Not a swimmer? Still interested? Really great volunteers
are one of the secrets of our Swim a Mile! It isn’t
too early to sign up as a volunteer and be in the middle
of all the fun this year. Call Sarah at 510/601-4040 x
105 and she will give you all the details.
Do you own or manage a small store, service business
or restaurant? We are still looking for donated goods,
services and food to give to swimmers as raffle prizes
and to help them keep their energy up the day of the event.
We would love to see body workers come by for quick rub
downs of tired muscles, all kinds of donated sandwiches,
bagels, juices, coffees, water etc. We can help with marketing
your business to more than 500 people who come and help
us that weekend. We strongly encourage our swimmers and
volunteers to support our supporters—together we
really do make a difference. Please call Ali at 510/527-1918
if you can help!
Volunteer with WCRC
It's a really fun thing to do! You have the opportunity to
be a part of a community, health or volunteer fair, find out
about the great work being done at other organizations and
also there is often good music, beautiful art and delicious
food. Please contact me if you would like to sign up for one
of these events.
The shifts will probably be for about 3 or 4 hours each
and we try to have 2 people per shift. One person stops
by the center to pick up the materials prior to the event
and another person returns the materials sometime the following
week. Call Sarah at 510.601.4040 x 105.
Sunday, September 12
Solano Avenue Stroll
1451 Solano Ave
8 am – 6 pm
Looks like a fun event – lots of food, music and
art!
Sunday, September 19
How Berkeley Can You Be?(Extra Brownie points for volunteers
who wear their tie-dye and Birkenstocks!
Martin Luther King Park (Intersection of Center St and
MLK Jr Dr)
9 am – 5 pm
For the creative ones out there – They request that
our booth be decorated according to the theme, “How
Berkeley Can You Be?” What is your idea? Email Sarah
with your best insight at sarah@wcrc.org. The best idea
gets a rather un-Berkeley-like but very nice WCRC embroidered
polo shirt.
Sunday, September 26
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure
Golden Gate Park
6 am – 12 pm
This one is for all the morning people out there! I know
this is early, but I thought I would ask just in case
you really wanted something to do at 6 am on a Sunday
morning! Bagels and coffee will be the gift of the Center
that morning!
Fourth annual Calendar of African American Women speak
about breast cancer
WCRC is proud to be helping the African American Breast
Cancer Task Group market its fourth production of a 24-month
calendar called “Reflections Beyond Surviving” of
beautiful women who are “celebrating life” after
a breast cancer diagnosis. Filled with inspiring stories and
exquisite photographs of breast cancer survivors, it is a
wonderful gift to the women in your life. We have copies here
at the Center or you may order yours by writing to mary@wcrc.org.
It is indeed a beautiful thing.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
It is a great time to be thinking about what we as women
can do to protect ourselves from cancer. Have you had a
mammogram? In the past year? Your annual gynecological exam?
Does your teen think smoking makes her look cool? We at
WCRC have lots of in-house expertise and are prepared to
come out and talk with your group, book club, hiking club,
bowling team – any gathering of women to share the
good news about what each of us can do to protect ourselves
from cancer and how to get the best possible care if you
should have a diagnosis. Please let’s all work to raise
awareness this fall not just about breast cancer, but all
the cancers for which women are at risk. Call Dolores and
she will set it up: 501.601.4040 x 112.
WCRC Support Groups
If you or a loved one is struggling with cancer, we
encourage you to participate in a support
group here at WCRC. If you are interested in a support
group that isn’t listed, please call Dolores at 510.420.7900
x112.
TREATMENT OPTIONS AND RESEARCH
HEALTH
ENVIRONMENT
RESOURCES
Complementary Care Resources
Cancer
Control Society provides a list of practitioners offering
specific alternative therapies. They also have a list of
patients who are willing to talk about their experiences
using alternative medicine.
Free Aryuvedic Consultations
A woman named Vicki Alcoset has completed a year's worth
of study at Ayurveda
Institute of America and will be offering FREE consultations
for diet, lifestyle and wellness support over the next three
months. She will be directly supervised by school Directors
who have medical and Ayurvedic training in India and over
twenty years’ experience practicing Ayurveda in this
country.
Appointments in Foster City are open on the weekends of
September 11 & 12, October 2 & 3 and on Saturday
November 6. Call the institute at (650) 341-8400. If you
are interested in a consultation but cannot go to Foster
City, Vicki is available to see you in Oakland.
A follow-up visit will be recommended in most cases, to
aid you in making adjustments to diet and lifestyle practices.
Herbal supplements will be available at a discount for the
duration of the internship period should you wish to take
them. Continued follow up with any of us students will remain
free until they have accumulated sufficient hours to exit
internship status. For additional follow up visits with
the clinic staff, standard fees apply.
For more on Ayurveda go to:
http://www.everydayayurveda.org
http://www.ayurvedainstitute.com
http://www.healingmission.com
or enter Ayurveda into a search engine and see what you
can find - there's more popping up every day.
EVENTS
The Yoga Room raises funds for WCRC
The Yoga Room is holding a benefit yoga workshop on Saturday,
October 9 from 2-5 pm. The benefit will include gentle yoga
asanas, breathing awareness and relaxing restorative poses.
The workshop is open to everyone and no previous yoga experience
is necessary. We have flyers and details at the Center.
Call Janan for details at 510.601.4040 x 100.
A new workshop series on menopausal transition
*JOYFUL BODY*
Movement/Meditation/Menopause
Session One: Balance
Women of color, lesbians and friends access the energetic
potential of this new phase of your life. Whether you are
facing menopause, feeling it, or floundering through its
after-effects, you can access your body’s own wisdom
to find balance. Purple Moon Dance Project’s Artistic
Director Jill Togawa, an experienced dancer/choreographer
and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, combines
gentle body movement, breath-work, meditation and yoga grounded
in a safe, sensitive and culturally-diverse perspective.
Beginning with an exploration of natural balance, other
five-week sessions in the ongoing series will explore such
qualities of the menopausal transition as change and flexibility,
loss and liberation, opportunity and potential, $25 covers
the five-class session; sliding scale is available; registration
is limited. Class meets from 5:30 to 7pm, Tuesdays –
August 24th and 31st, September 14th, 21st and 28th, at
the PMDP Studio, 465 10th Street, #302, SF. For registration/information,
please call 415.552.1105.
CD Release Concert
Have you or your loved ones been affected by chronic illness
or the cancer experience? Composer Joyce Kouffman's community
project and new CD "Who Has Not Been Touched"
is an uplifting, eclectic jazz journey of healing for everybody
and especially those who have been touched by these challenges
of living. The CD release concert, with Kouffman on jazz
drums, Bay Area legends Mary Watkins on piano and Ruth Davies
on bass, plus featuring renowned New York-based saxophonist,
Don Braden, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on SUNDAY, AUGUST
29 at The Dance Palace community center in Point Reyes Station.
Special guest emcees will be KCSM's Melanie Berzon and Claire
Peaslee of West Coast Live, reading inspiring perspectives
from those present and those who have passed on. For more
information, go to www.JoyceJazz.com.
President’s Cancer Meeting: Translating Research
to Reduce the Burden of Cancer
August 30, Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco
A panel of experts will address the barriers to translating
research into reductions in the burden of cancer, explore
the role of academic medical center in translating research
into clinical practice, and discuss the best mechanisms
for moving research into the community. For more information
contact Karen Parker at klparker@mail.nih.gov
or visit the website at www.pcp.cancer.gov.
Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to Thriving™,
a FREE two-day event for anyone touched by cancer - patients,
survivors, their friends and family, support persons, and
healthcare providers - September 11 & 12, 2004 at Sacramento
Community Center Theater. Pre-registration is necessary.
Contact Healing Journeys at (916) 930-9040, (800) 423-9882
or www.healingjourneys.org.
CEUs are available for a fee for RN, MFT, and LCSW.
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