PRG Day at the Races 2010
August 9, 2010 at 9:53 am, by Tracie Metzger
Archive for the ‘Frontpage’ Category
Video: Bowling for Boobies 2010
April 26, 2010 at 10:17 am, by Tracie Metzger
Why Do Young Women Get Breast Cancer?
April 3, 2010 at 10:19 pm, by jwhitfield
This is a question we all desperately want to know the answer to. A young scientific researcher (Jennifer Ivanovich) originally from the Cincinnati area, is studying this phenomena to identify what we have in common that contributes to our breast cancers at such a young age, but she needs several hundred more young women enrolled before her research is complete.
Join in on the Young Women’s Breast Cancer Study and be the one who helps us find that missing link.
Want to Participate?
If you wish to participate, they will mail you a study kit with all the supplies needed for your participation. The next time you have an appointment, your doctor may draw your blood and ship it using the blood tubes and prepaid Federal Express material they provide.
For more information or to sign up for this program visit the Young Womens Breast Cancer Research Website : http://www.siteman.wustl.edu/internal.aspx?id=3954
Follow us on Twitter! Be a fan on Facebook! Be our Friend on Myspace!
February 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm, by jwhitfield
PRG wants to hear from you!
Check us out on any or all of these Social Networking Medias.
Twitter - http://twitter.com/PinkRibbonGirls
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com search for Pink Ribbon Girls
Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/PinkRibbonGirls
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Luv2Tweet? Facebook Fanatic? Then PRG is looking for you!
February 23, 2010 at 10:56 pm, by jwhitfield
Volunteer for this eventPRG Members,
We have a brand new position on the PRG board as our Communications and Media Chair. This person is responsible for managing our social networking sites, and newsletter. If remotely interested please send an email to Communications@PinkRibbonGirls.org.
Position Overview: The Communications & Media Chair is responsible for ensuring that the organization is successfully promoted throughout various social networking outlets, and this indicidual is also responsible for regularly communicating with the organization’s membership through electronic publications. Current internal communications are managed through Constant Contact, and current external communications are managed via the PRG website, Evite, Twitter, Facebook and Myspace.
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Help Support Environmental Breast Cancer Research
February 23, 2010 at 4:13 pm, by jwhitfield
PRG is a proud supporter of many of the research efforts from the University of Cincinnati and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Please visit the below website that presents a myriad of fact vs. myth information on environmental factors we can all control to reduce our risk of breast cancer in ourselves and our children.
Be sure to leave your feedback on the site. We need your input before the Grant application deadline of March 10th!
Exciting New Radiation Procedure Available in Philadelphia
February 11, 2010 at 2:54 pm, by pnoel
Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA) at Eastern Regional Medical Center is introducing a radiation breakthrough that treats breast cancer patients in one day, as opposed to the current average of six weeks. CTCA will become the first in the country to offer this treatment option using the Novac7 technology from Rome, Italy.
Check out this link for the full article regarding this new groundbreaking procedure.
Let’s Get Together Monday, Feb. 22nd 6:30-8:00pm, Wellness Center, Blue Ash
February 11, 2010 at 1:41 pm, by pnoel
For those of you in the Greater Cincinnati area let’s get together for an evening of encouragement and getting to know each other. This is a general Pink Ribbon Girl meeting where we can share our experiences and make friends. I have found it so important over the years of battling this disease to connect with other survivors to both learn from them and give encouragement to others. Now, some of my best of friends were found through Pink Ribbon Girls. So, I encourage you to join us at The Wellness Center on Monday, Feb. 22nd, 6:30pm – 8:00pm; no RSVP required just come if you can make it. We’ll be meeting in the living room which is straight ahead when you come in the front door. There is also a Yoga class immediately preceeding from 5:30pm-6:20pm. For directions click here to get to The Wellness Center’s website.
Meet the New PRG Vice President!
January 24, 2010 at 10:03 pm, by jwhitfield
Hello Pink Ribbon Girls!
I am a survivor of 7 years and 3 years from each time I’ve been diagnosed. I joined PRG in 2002 as I faced my first diagnosis of Breast Cancer at a meager 24 years of age. Although I lived in Dayton, OH when first diagnosed I was so inspired by the women who came forward to lend a helping hand. Today these women make up many of my best friends, and I know I could not have found such a great support system if it weren’t for PRG. In 2006 I experienced the rare post-mastectomy local recurrence, and the hardships that came along with enduring chemotherapy, radiation, and finding myself a newly single mother of a very energetic 3 year old. I absolutely could not have gotten through this alone… I fortunately have relocated back to Cincinnati, and I am so excited to be joining PRG’s leadership and look forward to helping this great organization continue to bridge the gap in cancer support and care for young women all across the nation.
When I’m not working with PRG, I lead the Springdale Girl Scouts Daisy Troop with my two 6yr-old daughters, and I am a consumer reviewer for the 
Department of Defense and their Breast Cancer Research Program. Research is very near and dear to my heart and I believe that WE WILL find the cure in the next decade. Prior to joining PRG as Vice President I am a co-founder of Sisters Network Cincinnati, co-founder and president of Sisters Network Dayton, and a founding member of the Breast Cancer Fund of Ohio (Ohio’s Pink Ribbon License Plate). Please feel free to email me at any time if you have any questions or comments for me. Thanks So Much!
-Jocelyn Whitfield Banks
Looking Upstream for Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
January 23, 2010 at 10:52 pm, by jwhitfield
**Save The Date**
Looking Upstream for Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at the University of Cincinnati Reading Campus (formerly GRI)
8:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Presented by the Cincinnati Breast Cancer & the Environment Research Center (BCERC), the forum provides timely information on potential environmental links to breast cancer and an update on the Center’s ongoing research. The Cincinnati BCERC is one of four national Centers funded by the National Cancer Institute and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
More Information to Follow…
