Breast Cancer Educational Workshop

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The Benjamin & Yancy Foundation, Incorporated will host its highly anticipated third Educational Workshop on 'What is Cancer?' from 10:30AM to 12:30PM at Norman Mayer Library, 3001 Gentilly Boulevard. Guest speaker, Dr. Brooke Morrell of Radiology at UMC of New Orleans, will discuss general breast cancer information and treatment options. There will be refreshments, giveaways, additional information on prostate cancer, and overall general life saving information shared. This is a free event open to the community, so feel free to invite others, but please RSVP via Eventbrite.com. The Benjamin & Yancy Foundation (BY Foundation) is a non-profit organization that supports breast and prostate cancer patients and their caregivers through medical education, screenings, supportive therapies, and much more. If you would like to learn more information about the BY Foundation, mission/causes, and/or upcoming Educational Workshop, please feel free to contact Jean Benjamin Vappie (504.583.8254), Dr. Elizabeth A. Bridges (281.236.6980) or send an email to BY2Foundation@Gmail.com. About the Benjamin & Yancy Foundation: The Benjamin & Yancy Foundation, Incorporated was created in loving memory of Velma C Benjamin, PhD and Elmira Bridges-Yancy, BS, MS— two remarkable women and distinguished educators, who lost their battles to breast cancer. Their teaching careers spanned a combined 70 years, having taught and mentored countless adolescence on how to upkeep healthy lifestyles through their curriculum specialties of physical education & dance. The Benjamin & Yancy Foundation, Inc. is a certified non-profit organization [501(c)3] established in 2017 and has undertaken these educators’ mission surrounding health education in the Greater New Orleans Area as it pertains to breast and prostate cancer.