Category: Events Calendar - Part 3

Meditation and Music

Cancer survivorship can be a challenging and anxious time for people, and meditation or relaxation can be an important part of managing anxiety. Music therapy is a powerful form of relaxation providing calm and serenity. Please join music therapist Karen Popkin as she presents various relaxation techniques through music and instrumentation.

7th Annual Breast Health Summit

Join the Texas Breast HealthCollaborative for the 2011 Breast Health Summit. Topics and activities will focus on the need to educate, navigate, and advocate through, around and across the gaps so that no woman with breast cancer goes untreated. The two-day event will begin on October 20 and will include discussions about breast cancer treatment…

Healthy Women Make Healthy Communities Breast Cancer Awareness Day

At this breast cancer awareness day, there will be blood pressure and diabetes testing, refreshments and gifts, and limited free mammograms for qualified women (uninsured women age 40-64 and/or low income) from The Healthy U Express mobile mammography vehicle (please call for appointments). At 10 a.m., US Representative Charles A. Gonzalez will address the crowd…

Saks Fifth Avenue Key To The Cure Kickoff 2011

Honorary Chairs Kelli & Eddy Scurlock Blanton, Sr., Kickoff Chairs Joella & Steven Mach and Auction Chairs Trish and Ty Whitcomb will launch Houston’s 13th-annual Key To The Cure Charity Shopping Weekend with Saks Fifth Avenue Key To The Cure Kickoff 2011, a cocktail party benefiting CancerForward featuring libations, hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment and Saks’…

It Takes a Team: Healing Head and Neck Cancers

Join Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center physicians — including plastic surgeon Joseph Disa; radiation oncologist Nancy Lee; and Chief of the Head and Neck Surgical Service Jatin Shah — as they discuss up-to-date information on the treatment of and surgical reconstruction for head and neck cancers.