2 Friends Concert Tour on October 5, 2011 - Bismarck Cancer Center

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10 Skin Cancer Prevention Tips from Tara Most of us want to make the most of every possible minute outdoors on sunny days. But please keep skin safety in mind during time in the great outdoors. More than two million Americans will be diagnosed this year with a cancer that is almost totally preventable – skin cancer. For the most part, skin cancer, the most common cancer in the US, is caused by too much exposure to the sun. People who have fair skin and freckle or burn in the sun easily face a higher risk of developing skin cancer. But people of all skin colors can develop this disease and should take precautions to protect their skin. Most skin cancers are highly curable, but one form – malignant melanoma – is much more serious. The number of people with melanoma has increased by more than 100 percent since 1973. Luckily, skin cancer is one of the easiest cancers to prevent and detect. Prevention and early detection are the best ways to keep your skin healthy. SKIN PROTECTION TIPS Choose your sunscreen wisely: choose a broad spectrum sunscreen to protect against UVA and UVB rays. UVB rays cause sunburns, but UVA rays also increase your risk for skin cancer. Use an SPF of at least 45: SPF stands for Sun Protection Factor. THE ART OF LIVING 2012 At the St. Alexius Summer Fun & Safety Day in May, Tara talked with hundreds of local children about the importance of sun safety. Apply sunscreen liberally: Apply one ounce of sunscreen (about the size of a ping-pong ball) to every part of your body exposed to the sun. Don’t forget the ears, feet, and behind the neck. Your skin can take up to 30 minutes to absorb sunscreen, so be sure to apply it about 30 minutes before going outside. Remember to reapply sunscreen: Once you’re outdoors, reapply sunscreen every two hours, or more often if you’re swimming or sweating. Even waterproof sunscreen loses its effectiveness due to humidity, perspiration, swimming and uneven application. Wear lip balm: Apply lip balm with SPF 30 or higher and reapply it every two hours. Tara Schilke is nurse manager with the Bismarck Cancer Center and hosts education and wellness seminars. The Bismarck Cancer Center is seeking visual art for the 2012 edition of “The Art of Living,” a 12-month desk calendar. Our first calendar in 2010 was a big hit! Photography and artwork of all styles and media will be considered. Art can directly illustrate aspects of the cancer experience, but it is not required. We encourage patients, family, friends, physicians, employees, board members, donors, and regional artists to submit works for consideration. You do not need to be a professional artist to be a part of this amazing project! Please e-mail an image of your artwork to kjondahl@bismarckcancercenter.com or call Kim at 701-222-6119. Submission deadline is September 1, 2011.
More Than 40 Businesses Supported BCC’s First project HOPE sm A diagnosis of cancer is life-changing, whether it’s personal, that of a loved one, or a co-worker. To provide cancer prevention and early detection education to businesses so they might empower employees to develop healthier lifestyles, Bismarck Cancer Center recently teamed with local businesses to provide tools and education for their employees. When Bismarck Cancer Center Advisory Board members approved the project, it rolled forward quickly with the intent of bringing cancer awareness to the community. Well received, 42 local businesses jumped aboard project HOPE. These businesses committed to educating their employees about healthy lifestyles, cancer prevention and early detection as well as offered an opportunity to dress down or wear colors according to the cancer color of the day. Project HOPE provided the businesses with daily cancer health and wellness materials for this week-long event, highlighting the four most diagnosed cancers in North Dakota: prostate, colorectal, breast and lung. Armed with a project HOPE poster, cancer awareness information, participation stickers, paycheck inserts, and e-mail content, businesses held wellness events for their organization during the week of May 16-20, 2011 (designated project HOPE week by Mayor John Warford and Mayor Tim Helbling). In turn, employees responded by donating $10 to project HOPE and dressing to the cancer color of the day. A casual event, employees scanned through emails at their leisure, read through handouts containing pertinent information regarding sun exposure, ways to incorporate exercise, appropriate things to say or do for cancer patients as well as cancer specific handouts. Handouts shared focused risk factors, symptoms, screening tests, prevention and other information for each cancer- specific day. Additionally, each business displayed a memory board allowing staff to jot words of inspiration or support for either their staff or customers. VUE Community Credit Union demonstrated their support by wearing pink during project HOPE week. “The project has been a huge success and the employees have really enjoyed it. It has brought much awareness to us and the members of our Credit Union,”VUE Community Credit Union President Patty Mathisen said.“We have employees with many family members affected by the disease. This has not only been awareness for us, but Bismarck Cancer Center has been an inspiration, just knowing you all care.” BCC Radiation Therapy Manager Amy Gross said it was very well received in the community: “Each business really embraced the event, and many even matched their employee donations. Some went the extra mile to ensure complete involvement by their staff. One business instilled a Hawaiian theme, allowing their staff to dress the part.” BCC looks forward to future successes and hopes to move project HOPE to outreach cities: Jamestown, Minot, Dickinson and others.“We’d like to see information brought to these communities as well,”Amy says. Established three years ago, the Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation is committed to providing hope,help and healing to cancer patients during their journey. By providing financial support, assistance with transportation, lodging, emotional and spiritual care,dietary care as well as massage and physical therapies, the Foundation provides hope to cancer patients and families as they are affected by the disease. 11
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