• The 2008 Mother's Day Walk Against Cancer, celebrating 5 Years of Survivorship was bigger than ever. 582 registered walkers joined us.
• Latinas Contra Cancer supports the Sister Study in finding the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer. Latinas step up and take your place in this important research! Did your sister have breast cancer? Find out more about how to honor her battle and how you may help prevent future
  generations from getting this disease."

• Learn more about our Cervical Health Initiative  to educate Latina women and teens ..raising awareness and promoting pap smears and the new cervical cancer preventative- the HVP vaccine  
  
  
  
  See more photos from our first Cervical Health Rally at Gilroy High School here..
  
• La Oferta reports..."In many communities talking about sex and sexual organs are taboo subjects. The Latino community is no different." For more on this story             

Many don't or won't get cervical screening
By the time Victelia Guillen walked into a clinic last summer, the pain that began a year earlier flared through her body.

IN MEMORIAM

Latinas Contra Cancer dedicated it's 2006 Mother's Day Walk to singer-songwriter, Soraya, one of Latinas strongest, most vocal breast cancer advocates, who died in May 2006.

On May 10th, at age 37, Soraya died of a recurrence of breast cancer. Soraya spoke out often about self exams and annual screening. But few people are talking about inflammatory breast cancer, which isn't detected by a lump in the breast. Watch this graphic news story about an aggressive breast cancer few know about. The pictures are disturbing, but this is information every woman should have.

Latest News and Resources

• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship provides a Cancer Survivor Toolbox in English and Spanish, a free audio program designed to help cancer survivors and caregivers develop practical skills to deal with the diagnosis, treatment and challenges of cancer http://www.cancersurvivaltoolbox.org/

•   LAF Spanish-Language Web Site
  The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF)   website now offers information in Spanish. The LAF recently launched www.livestrong.org/espanol, the Spanish-language version of www.livestrong.org.

  Not an exact duplicate of the English-language Web site, the Spanish site provides a resource for educational information, materials and support services to those who have been affected by cancer within the Latino population. Included is access to Livestrong Survivor Care and numerous Latino survivor stories.

•  http://www.patientadvocate.org

   Patient Advocate Foundation is a national  non-profit organization that seeks to  safeguard patients through effective  mediation assuring access to care,  maintenance of employment and  preservation of their financial stability.   This site has a Spanish language  component    

• Latinas Contra Cancer and Chevron partner to launch a breast health education campaign in California, Texas and Florida
• Breast Health Bingo Education Workshops
  Made possible by a grant from Astra Zeneca, June 2007-2008
  Peer educator addresses myths and misinformation about breast cancer targeting the Spanish speaking.
  For information
• Order a set of Bingo Health Cards (breast, prostate, cervical, colorectal and lung) challenging myth & misinformation around issues of cancer in the Latino community
  Call 408-280-0811 or email
  office@latinascontracancer.org
• CHESS "Living with Breast Cancer" This internet site is in English only and supports Latinas diagnosed with breast cancer as well as their families and friends
• Healthy Eating for Life: Food Choices for Cancer Prevention and Survival....The Cancer Project
• This internet site helps users quickly find interpreters, materials about how to provide culturally competent care, information in several languages about specific diseases and healthy practices, and county-specific contacts to find further assistance.
  Go to
  http://wwwmedicalleadership.org, and click "Language Access Resources" for more information
• Hospice of the Valley compassionate end-of-life care and grief support
  
  
  

  Our Purpose

  We're raising awareness about cancer in the Latino community, increasing access to quality care, decreasing mortality and improving the quality of the health care experience.

  Latinas Contra Cancer does this
  by offering support services and resources for the Latino cancer patient and their family; collaborates with other small agencies to provide education and outreach services; and partners with health care institutions to bridge the gap through culturally competent outreach and medical care.