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Community representatives and volunteers with the Susan G. Komen foundation work together to
help educate African American women on the importance of early detection.
Important Screenings
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Komen reaches out for breast health
A grand imbalance exists be-
tween breast cancer screening and
late stage diagnosis rates inside
the black community and oficials
and volunteers with the Susan G.
Komen Foundation are working
to pinpoint a corrective course of
action.
The non-proit group’s Oregon
and Southwest Washington chap-
ter have adopted a new initiative
to increase breast health education
and support services for the local
African American community.
Taking into consideration that
breast cancer is the second most
common cause of death among
black women, the goal is to get
more people from the Portland
and Vancouver area to screen for
disease.
spiration.
Worship in Pink traditionally
takes place throughout the month
of October for Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, but Komen
hosts free information sessions all
year round that go more in depth
about the program and ways to in-
volve your own congregation.
Members of the faith commu-
nity who are interested in helping
with Worship in Pink are encour-
aged to attend two upcoming in-
formation sessions on Saturday,
June 4 from 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m., and Wednesday, June 8
from 6 p.m. to 7:30 pm at Lega-
cy Emanuel Medical Center, 2901
N. Gantenbein Ave., Room 1035.
For more about the sessions, visit
komenoregon.org/worshipinpink.
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“The statistics in the African
American community are alarm-
ing, and we need to do something
to address the disparities. African
American women have a high-
er chance of developing a more
aggressive form of breast cancer
earlier in life, so screening and
early detection is that much more
important in saving lives,” says
Cindy Fletcher, director of pro-
grams for Komen Oregon and SW
Washington.
One of the ways Komen is
reaching out is by expanding its
Worship in Pink program, which
enlists the help of diverse congre-
gations and community organiza-
tions of all faiths to increase the
number of women getting mam-
mograms with education and in-
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Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, a
homegrown leader from the Afri-
can American community and an
accomplished physician, has been
nominated to serve on the board of
the Portland Development Com-
mission by Mayor Charles Hales.
In Thursday’s announcement,
Hales said Moreland-Capuia has
a breadth of professional and vol-
unteer experience that will give
PDC expertise in Portland’s rap-
idly growing health care industry
and insight into difference facets Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia
of our community.
The City Council must approve
the appointment.
Dr.
Moreland-Capuia
is
co-founder of the Capuia Foun-
dation and executive director of
Oregon Health and Science Uni-
versity’s Avel Gordly Center for
Healing. She is also an assistant
professor of public psychiatry at
OHSU.
She has served on the Oregon
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