October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
West Virginia University is committed to ensuring employees are aware of the risks to their health and the options they have to prevent them.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Division of Talent and Culture has partnered with the West Virginia Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program to provide WVU employees with information and resources about the second-leading cause of cancer death in women in the U.S.
In West Virginia, Breast Cancer Awareness Day is a day that has come to encompass what Breast Cancer Awareness is all about. This year, West Virginia celebrates its annual BCAD on Thursday, Oct. 14. Join the online celebration Oct. 14 at noon.
WVU Cancer Institute’s Pink Party Raises $80K to Benefit Bonnie’s Bus
The WVU Cancer Institute’s 2021 Pink Party raised more than $80,000 to benefit Bonnie’s Bus, a mobile mammography unit that provides life-saving breast cancer screenings for women in West Virginia.
“Particularly when we consider that this year’s event was hosted virtually, the fundraising achieved for Bonnie’s Bus is noteworthy,” Hannah Hazard-Jenkins, M.D., director of the WVU Cancer Institute, said. “The generous monetary contributions, in-kind gifts, and auction bidding reflect a growing community of support to benefit this extraordinarily important program for the WVU Cancer Institute. We commend all those who exuded the true spirit of philanthropy by supporting the Bus despite a traditional party. Continued donor support such as this ensures that Bonnie’s Bus continues to provide life-saving screenings for both women and men across the state.”
All proceeds from The Pink Party benefit Bonnie’s Bus, which has provided more than 21,500 mammograms to West Virginia women and has detected over 115 cases of breast cancer since 2009. Many patients who take advantage of Bonnie’s Bus live in rural parts of the state where access to screening mammography is limited or unavailable.
Health Sciences To Host a Number of Events During WVU Diversity Week 2021
Cultural Conversations: Celebrating the Social Significance of Ethnicity” is the theme of WVU’s Diversity Week 2021. WVU’s annual Diversity Week promotes celebration, education, and understanding of different identities and experiences present on our campuses.
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