Rowan County Relay For Life

 How Proceeds Are Used - 2008

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On any given day in the Southeast Division...

- Working with our collaborative partners, 116 women receive mammograms.

- We support 42 patients with Quality of Life programs.

- Southeast Division Call Center helps 250 people with cancer information.

- Invest an average of $80,000 per day in research.

- On average 40 patients are in our Hope Lodges and 3 patients are being admitted.
 

What the America Cancer Society does to help patients...

- Provides Look Good...Feel Better for female patients with cancer.

- Offers Reach to Recovery for female patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

- Makes available prostate cancer volunteers to visit to call patients undergoing treatment.

- Provides FREE wigs, prostheses to cancer patients.

- Open 24 hour/7 days a week for cancer information.

What you can do to help...

- Ask your cosmetologist if she/he would like to volunteer 2 hours a month to help female cancer patients.

- Volunteer to drive cancer patients to their cancer treatment once a month.

- Volunteer to join the ACS Action Network, call or write your legislator.

- Become an ACS volunteer for Man to Man, Reach to Recovery, or cancer education.

- Form a team to participate in Relay for Life.