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local area spotlight The American Cancer Society and the Evansville Cancer Center: teammates in the fight against cancer In southwestern Indiana, the American Cancer Society and the Evansville Cancer Center (ECC) are working together to fight cancer. A clinic providing outpatient radiation and medical oncology services for all types of cancer, the Evansville Cancer Center coordinates with the American Cancer Society's Southwestern Indiana Area Service Center to ensure more people receive information about prevention, early detection, and awareness.  Two of the Center's staff members participate in the Society's Colorectal Cancer Awareness Network. These networks attempt to increase community awareness on colorectal cancer, emphasize screenings, and decrease colorectal cancer mortality in Indiana and Michigan.The center also hosts Man to Man meetings, a Society support group for men diagnosed with prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia, an enlargement of the prostate. At Man to Man meetings, a volunteer coordinator and a professional from the Evansville Cancer Center typically steer the discussion on prostate cancer topics, or the men and their loved ones listen to researchers or clinicians present new findings regarding prostate cancer. The American Cancer Society provides contacts, volunteers, and educational materials for the Center's various events and awareness programs. Man to Man participants volunteer each year to help with the Evansville Cancer Center's Annual Prostate Awareness Program. The 2006 program featured an autograph session and an opportunity for two Super Bowl icons, Len Dawson and Bart Starr, to talk about prostate cancer. Len Dawson is a prostate cancer survivor and a spokesman for the Society. An active participant in American Cancer Society fundraisers like Relay For Life and the annual gala held by the Southwestern Indiana office, the Evansville Cancer Center provides much needed funds and sponsorship. "The partnership leads to the ECC involvement in just about everything we do," said Gene Watson, community program representative for the Southwestern Indiana Area Service Center. "The people [at the local American Cancer Society office] are wonderful. I can call them with our needs, and vice versa. We work off each other," explained Robin Lawrence, director of marketing for the Evansville Cancer Center. The American Cancer Society and the Evansville Cancer Center provide each other an invaluable partnership in supplying the public information to promote awareness, prevention, and early detection. Together, they do more than they could alone. To work with the American Cancer Society in providing educational materials, or to volunteer to help fight cancer in your community, contact your local area service center by calling 800-ACS-2345. | |
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