All classes are FREE unless noted. Registration is required by calling 818-885-8500, ext. 2855, unless noted.
Cancer Orientation: Everything You Need to Know From Diagnosis to Recovery
Every first and third Tuesday, Noon to 1:30 p.m.,
or Every second and fourth Tuesday, 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Leavey Cancer Center Conference Room
Presented by Wanda Martin, RN
The Leavey Cancer Center’s mission is to provide patients with a road map of information that leads to awareness, understanding and coping with cancer. Newly diagnosed cancer patients will learn about all of the treatment options, financial issues, symptom management and emotional support offered at the Center.
Support Your Breasts…What Every Woman Needs to Know
Monday, October 13, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
(Lunch will be served)
5th Floor Penthouse Auditorium
Presented by Marie McCombs, MD, NHMC Women’s Imaging Medical Director and National Spokeswoman on Breast Health for Johnson & Johnson; Harold Marks, MD, Surgeon, NHMC Physician Liaison, Breast Cancer Program; Jan Baskin-Smith, RN, Breast Health Specialist; Roxanne Rahimi, RN, ONC, Certified Oncology Nurse; Randy Kaplan James, MS, DABR, Physicist
Learn about new interventions to treat breast cancer, screening with MRI, risk factors, life after mastectomy and how to tell if breast cancer if in your family tree.
Free Health Fair and Cancer Screenings
(For the uninsured and underinsured)
Saturday, November 15, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Leavey Cancer Center
Presented by Northridge Hospital Medical Center’s Leavey Cancer Center and sponsored by the Harold Pump Foundation
Community members will learn about the importance of routine screening for cancer and have the opportunity to receive free prostate, cervical, breast and skin cancer screenings. We will also provide free blood pressure, blood glucose and diabetes testing.
Please note this event is for those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Breast Cancer Support Group
Second and Fourth Tuesday each month, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Call (818) 885-8500, ext. 2833
(Last updated October 1, 2008)
