September Awareness
Posted 9 months ago in Cancer Awareness
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September Awareness
September is awareness for many cancers including blood cancers, ovarian and gynecologic cancers, prostate cancer, childhood cancer and thyroid cancer. For details about these cancers, see our September Awareness page, our Cancer Awareness Calendar and Resources page and the following resources: American Cancer Society and Cancer.net.
September is also National Preparedness Month. See Emergency Resources for the Cancer Community at https://www.cancer.gov/contact/emergency-preparedness.
Upcoming Education and Events
- Cancer Support Community North Texas:
Strategies for Eating and Living Well with Mary Alexander: September 6, 1:00-2:00 pm, Lunch provided. Please register by September 1. Advanced Directives, September 13, 12-1, Zoom, register here. See full September calendar attached.
- Dallas Chapter Oncology Nursing Society Fall’n in Step with ONS EDUCATION EXTRAVAGANZA, September 26, 2023, 5:00 to 8:00 PM
- Triage Cancer conferences this fall for patients and healthcare professionals. Get questions answered about health insurance, working when you have cancer and more. See all the conference and webinar flyers and information at https://triagecancer.org/conferences.
- Sepsis Alliance Summit 2023, September 27. 2023. Get details at https://dfwnavigators.nursingnetwork.com/nursing-events/141104-sepsis-alliance-summit-2023#!info
- AONN+ Annual Conference is November 15-19, 2023, virtual and in person, at the JW Marriott in San Antonio, Texas. They recently announced their agenda. See here for details.
- See Education and Events on our website for patient and navigator events
Resources
- CancerCare cancercare.org/ online support groups for blood, gynecologic and prostate cancers
- CDC cdc.gov information and educational materials for sepsis and gynecologic and prostate cancers
- ONS assessment tools has tools for pain, fatigue and more
- Patient Advocate Foundation has rare diseases and Prostate Cancer CareLines.
- Patient Resource has information on blood, gynecologic, childhood and prostate cancers.
Our flyer
See our flyer with upcoming education here. It has QR codes for the AONN+ conferences and our meeting dates. Thank you to our Program/Vendor liaison, Iris Andrade, for all of her hard work and dedication. Iris has done a wonderful job getting us sponsors for our meetings.