Cancer Does Not Stop for Nighttime

DEERFIELD BEACH/LIGHTHOUSE POINT

RELAY TIMES

Eating Well Through Cancer

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Practical Advice and Hope for Cancer Survivors

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Word of the Month 4

Quotes of the Month 4

Team Meeting Information 4

Look Good...Feel Better 5

2010 Registered Teams 5

Cleaning for a Reason 5

Relay for Life Luminaria Form

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Team Spotlight 7

Cut-A-Thon 8

Ireland By The Sea 9

Annual Yard Sale 10

Pig Out In The Park 11

Free Cone Day 12

MARCH 2010 VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3

RELAY FOR LIFE AT QUIET WATERS PARK MAY 1-2, 2010

RELAY FOR LIFE is an 18 hour journey providing the light and dark of day and night to parallel the physical effects, emotions and mental state of a cancer patient while undergoing treatment. RELAY FOR LIFE begins during the day, when the sun is shining bright and the excitement and energy is flowing through the community. The setting sun symbolizes the time when a patient is diagnosed with cancer. The day is getting darker and this represents the cancer patient’s state of mind as he or she feels that life is coming to an end. As the evening goes on it gets colder and darker, just as the emotions of the cancer patient does. Around 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. represents the time when the cancer pa-tient starts treatment. They become exhausted, some sick, not wanting to go on, possi-bly wanting to give up. As a participant, you have been walking and feel much the same way. You are tired, want to sleep, maybe even want to go home, but you cannot stop or give up. Around 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. symbolizes the coming of the end of treatment for the cancer patient. Once again they are tired, but they know they will make it. The sun rising represents the end of treatment for the cancer patient. They see the light at the end of the tunnel and know that life will go on. The morning light brings on a new day full of life and excitement for new beginnings for the cancer patient. As a participant, you will feel the brightness of the morning and know that the end of the RELAY is close at hand. When you leave the RELAY, think of the cancer patient leaving their last treatment. Just as you are exhausted and weak, so is that person after treatment. But a new day has arrived and we are continuing to take up the fight against cancer. REMEMBER: There is no finish line until we find a cure.

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Eating Well Through Cancer

If so, we want to honor and recognize you and your caregiver at our American Cancer Society Relay For Life event on May 1, 2010 at Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach. Our 2010 Relay theme is Countries, so it will be an International Relay with food and decorations from many countries, sort of like an Epcot Center event on a smaller scale. We also invite you to participate at our meetings, celebrations, and parties throughout the year where we get to know one another, encourage each other and plan the annual Relay event. Therefore, if you or someone you know is interested in participating in the Relay in any way, please go online to www.relayforlife.org/dblpfl, or contact the following people: Event Chair: Carlos Sanchez, at 954-822-9582, or cas747_2000@yahoo.com Event Vice Chair: Carol Landau, at 954-426-6547, or clandau@bellsouth.net Survivor Chair: Donna Rotsch, at 954-242-3316, or rotschdonna@yahoo.com ACS Staff Partner: Ashley Reed, at 954-564-0880 x 7523, or ashley.reed@cancer.org There are many ways to be involved, such as serving on a committee, signing up as a team, being recognized as a survivor or caregiver, helping to secure sponsorships or raffle prizes, holding fundraising events, etc.

Are you, or is someone you know, a Cancer Survivor?

Chicken Scampi

Ingredients 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder Salt and pepper to taste 1 tablespoon dried oregano leaves 3 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

Instructions 1. Combine all ingredients in shallow bowl. Marinate, covered, in refrigerator several hours or overnight.

2. Preheat broiler. Remove chicken from marinade, place in single layer in shallow baking dish or broiling pan. Broil 8 inches from heat, turning once, until chicken is done, 15 minutes.

Makes 8 servings

Information was obtained through www.hollyclegg.com/ Recipe

If you were recently diagnosed with cancer or are currently going through cancer treatment, you will find a lot of practical advice and encouragement in Julie K. Silver, MD's new book, What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope, published by the American Cancer Society. The book, which is based on first-hand accounts from cancer survivors and interviews with leading cancer experts, will help you cope with both day-to-day concerns (How should my diet change during treatment?) and complex emotional issues (How do I talk to my children about cancer?), and it does so in an easy-to-read, personal way. Dr. Silver is an assistant professor at Harvard

Medical School and the author of two other books, including After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger and Super Healing. In 2006, she was awarded the American Can-cer Society Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. This year marks her 5th year as a breast cancer survivor. For this book, Silver surveyed nearly 300 cancer survivors from all walks of life: teachers, executives, stay-at-home moms, and several celebrities, including Lance Armstrong, Scott Hamilton, Sharon Osbourne, and Carly Simon. She asked them all sorts of questions about their cancer experience, like how friends made a difference, what they did to relieve stress, how they balanced work and family, how their bodies and intimacy were affected by can-cer, and how cancer changed their lives. The result is a book that's chockfull of candid personal stories about living with cancer and lists of real-world coping strategies. Friends and family of cancer patients and survivors should get a lot out of this book, too. Some chapters in particular might be especially illumi-nating: "How My Family Helped," "What Would Have Helped but Was Too Hard to Ask," "How My Body and Intimacy Were Affected," and "How Cancer Changed My Life." It can sometimes be difficult to know how best to reach out to the person with cancer, and these candid chapters offer real insight into what the person with cancer may be thinking, feeling, and most in need of. What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope is now available through the American Cancer Society's bookstore. Two other books authored by Silver's children and written for children also are available in the bookstore: Our Mom Is Getting Better and Our Dad Is Getting Better. Information was obtained through www.cancer.org.

New Book Offers Practical Advice and Hope for Cancer Survivors

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Teamwork: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. – John Donne Inspirational: A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou Kindness: To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place...to know even life has breathed easier because you have lived.. This is to have succeed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Life: We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill Wisdom: How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you’ll know Right away what you amount to. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Inspirational Quotes of the Month

• March 16th - Team Party at Dixon Ahl Hall • April 16th - Committee Meeting at Dixon Ahl Hall • April 20th - Team Party at Dixon Ahl Hall

Dixon Ahl Hall 2220 N.E. 38th Street, Lighthouse Point, FL 33064

Committee Meetings - First Tuesday of the month

Team Parties/ Meetings - Third Tuesday of the month

Anti-angiogenesis Treatment: Anti– angiogenesis is a form of targeted therapy that uses Drugs or other substances to stop tumors from making new blood vessels. Without a blood supply, tumors can’t grow. Information was obtained through www.cancer.org.

Word of the Month

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If you know any woman currently undergoing chemo, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that

provides FREE housecleaning - 1 time per month for 4 months while undergoing treatment.

All you have to do is sign up and have the doctor fax a note confirming the treatment.

Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in your zip code area arrange for this service.

http://www.cleaningforareason.org

2010 Registered Relay Teams

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Virtual Imaging, Inc./ Canon U.S.A Healing Spirits (Germany) Deerfield Chamber of Commerce (Mexico) (Brazil)

JP Miller and Sons (China) CLA (Greece) Deportivo Azzuri (Spain)

DBHS NHS (Egypt) Founder’s Day (Ireland) Cardinal Marjory (Turkey)

You’ll Never Walk Alone (England) Kiwanis Care Bears (Israel) LHP Chamber of Commerce (U.S.A)

Star-Lite Express (Fiji) Balkan & Patterson’s Pink Power (Italy)

Andrea’s Angels (France) Friends For Life (Japan) Soroptimists, DBHS IBSO & Key Club (N/A)

Look Good...Feel Better

LOOK GOOD....FEEL BETTER is a program sponsored by the American Cancer Society in collaboration with the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association {CTFA} and the Cosmetology Association. The program provides make-up, skin care products and wigs that are donated by the partner associations to women undergoing cancer treatment. Volunteers, like me, are invited by the ACS to come and show these women how to use the products and fit them with wigs. Although I am a professional hairstylist, I was apprehensive about participating because I was diagnosed with cancer last year and I share many of the fears of the women I would be assisting. But by being part of this program, it helped me overcome my own fears by witnessing the strength and courage of the women I was helping. Seeing the look in their eyes and the smiles on their faces when they saw how beautiful they looked in the mirror, made me realize how important it is to let women with can-cer know that they may lose their hair, but they don’t have to lose their self-esteem. My name is Donna Rotsch/Survivor Chair for Deerfield/Lighthouse. GOD BLESS

Cleaning for a Reason

** IF YOU ARE A REGISTERED TEAM AND HAVE NOT CHOSEN A COUNTRY, PLEASE DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. **

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Fresh Aroma Café Bistro & Virtual Imaging held a Karaoke Night!

There was plenty of food, fun and laughter!

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