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Annual Ten Mile Breast Cancer Awareness Walk
Come walk with us...Sunday, September 19th 2010
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Making Waves-JTJ Dragon Boat Team
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Join the Journey’s Creative Support Sessions March 2011
Mayo Clinic Gonda Building 10th Floor
Tuesdays from 1:30-3pm
Tuesdays from 1:30-3pm
Photos provide a glimpse into our past. Join us as we are introduced to creative ways of displaying photographs and revisiting fond memories. Scrap book materials will be available to create cards.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
3rd Annual Coaches against Cancer Basketball Game Mayo High School-
Join us this Friday, February 11, 2011
Raise Breast Cancer Awareness
Mayo High School vs. Austin
JV game 6pm -Varsity 7:30pm
Pink T-shirts for sale!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Join the Journey’s Creative Support Sessions
February 2011 Tuesdays 1:30pm-3pm
Creative Jewelry~ Artist Janelle Forstoffer
Making items of beauty and function can create a sense of calm and purpose during times of stress. Participants will work with colors and shapes to produce a unique pendant necklace.
Sponsored by Join the Journey (www.jointhejourney.us)
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Join the Journey’s Creative Support Sessions
January 2011 Tuesdays 1:30-3:00
Painted Glass and Loom Blooms
The Artists from Zumbro Valley Fiber Arts Guild will help us consider color, texture and light as a means of self expression and therapeutic creativity.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Join the Journey’s Creative Support Sessions:
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Scrapbook Cards with Suzanne Petty
Tuesdays November 2 and 9, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Join us as we use scrapbook materials to make one-of-a-kind cards.
Beaded Angels with Gayle Dahl
Tuesdays November 16th and 30th, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Join us as we create beautiful beaded angels to keep as a memento or to give as a gift. Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Join the Journey's Creative Support Sessions~September Tuesdays from 1:30-3:00pm Gonda 10 Resource Room
Painted Silk with artist Sharon Brodhum
Using paint, silk and our own creativity provides an unusual outlet for thoughts and feelings. Join us as we work with vibrant colors and natural fibers to create functional art...
Bras for a Cause coming soon.
Start saving your old bras! BRAS FOR A CAUSE COMING UP SOON. Rochester Ford Toyota will donate $5000 to JTJ if we collect 5,000 bras.
Bring them to our Walk on Sunday, September 19th.
$21,000. Raised at the Big or Small-Save them All, Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraising Event
Thank you to Counselor Realty of Rochester for organizing an amazing event at the Wicked Moose~Big or Small Save them All A fantastic time was had by everyone! You have helped us help our friends and neighbors here in our local community. THANK YOU!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Educational Opportunities Women’s Cancer Resource Room, Gonda 10-136 August 2010
Quilting with Betsy Munroe
Tuesdays: August 10,17,24&31 from 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Using colors and textures found in fabrics we can express thoughts and feelings. Working with our hands and focusing on a new skill can offer stress relief during difficult times. This session will explore the art of hand quilting.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
NCI Cancer Bulletin; June 1, 2010 Volume 7 / Number 11
Some Older Women Can Forgo Radiation after Breast Cancer Surgery
Women 70 years of age or older with early-stage breast cancer did not benefit from the addition of radiation therapy to breast-conserving surgery and tamoxifen, according to the findings of a phase III randomized trial released last week. The study results, presented May 20 in advance of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, indicate that “death from breast cancer is a very rare event among [older] women with these small cancers,” said lead author Dr. Kevin Hughes of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The trial was conducted by three NCI clinical trials cooperative groups: the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
Between 1994 and 1999, the researchers enrolled 636 women in the trial; 319 received tamoxifen alone after surgery, and 317 received tamoxifen plus radiation therapy. All women had early-stage, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease that had not spread to the lymph nodes. The researchers followed the women for a median of 10.5 years after treatment.
Although adding radiation therapy to tamoxifen reduced the chance of cancer recurrence in the same breast by 6 percent, it did not affect overall survival, breast-cancer-specific survival, cancer spread, or the need for later mastectomy due to disease recurrence. The 10-year breast-cancer-specific survival was 98 percent for women receiving tamoxifen alone and 96 percent for women receiving tamoxifen plus radiation therapy.
“Older women often have small tumors that are ER-positive, without evidence of spread to the lymph nodes. This [study] is certainly practice-affirming and may be potentially practice changing,” said Dr. Douglas Blayney, president of ASCO. “Many [older] women…elect to defer radiation therapy. This gives us some comfort as physicians in supporting that decision…and maybe it will change the recommendations we make to our patients,” he concluded.
Women 70 years of age or older with early-stage breast cancer did not benefit from the addition of radiation therapy to breast-conserving surgery and tamoxifen, according to the findings of a phase III randomized trial released last week. The study results, presented May 20 in advance of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, indicate that “death from breast cancer is a very rare event among [older] women with these small cancers,” said lead author Dr. Kevin Hughes of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The trial was conducted by three NCI clinical trials cooperative groups: the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, and Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.
Between 1994 and 1999, the researchers enrolled 636 women in the trial; 319 received tamoxifen alone after surgery, and 317 received tamoxifen plus radiation therapy. All women had early-stage, estrogen receptor (ER)-positive disease that had not spread to the lymph nodes. The researchers followed the women for a median of 10.5 years after treatment.
Although adding radiation therapy to tamoxifen reduced the chance of cancer recurrence in the same breast by 6 percent, it did not affect overall survival, breast-cancer-specific survival, cancer spread, or the need for later mastectomy due to disease recurrence. The 10-year breast-cancer-specific survival was 98 percent for women receiving tamoxifen alone and 96 percent for women receiving tamoxifen plus radiation therapy.
“Older women often have small tumors that are ER-positive, without evidence of spread to the lymph nodes. This [study] is certainly practice-affirming and may be potentially practice changing,” said Dr. Douglas Blayney, president of ASCO. “Many [older] women…elect to defer radiation therapy. This gives us some comfort as physicians in supporting that decision…and maybe it will change the recommendations we make to our patients,” he concluded.
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