Released on = December 16, 2005, 11:35 am

Press Release Author = Cancer Chronicle

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = New program to serve minority women in Cincinnati to
prevent, treat and cure breast cancer.

Press Release Body = Cincinnati, Ohio - Cincinnati Cancer Clinic and Dr. Martin
Weinstock hopes to bring awareness and assistance to women from the Cincinnati area
through a new breast education, treatment, and screening program he has instituted
at the Cincinnati Cancer Clinic's Pennington Education Center. The Center is at the
Cincinnati Junior College School facility dedicated to the promotion of literacy for
adults and teens and serves approximately 3,200 students each year.

\"Breast Cancer is an anxiety-provoking topic for many women, and understanding what
you can do to detect and arrest breast cancer is important to all women,\" says Dr.
Weinstock, breast cancer health specialist at the Cincinnati Clinic. \"We hope to be
able to help the women in our community who are not accessing health care to
understand the importance of screening for breast cancer, and then actually get them
screened.\"

In a program that started in early October, Dr. Weinstock and several colleagues in
the Cincinnati Cancer Clinic Breast Diagnostic Center are speaking weekly to classes
at Pennington; often working with individuals whose primary language is not English.
The doctors are working to develop health literacy on the subject of breast health
and the importance of mammography screening, and will perform clinical breast exams
and help coordinate and schedule mammograms.

Dr. Weinstocks team will work with Pennington and other agencies to ensure that
medical assistance and preventative medicines such as Cancer Control are accessible.
The classes and screenings will be provided free of charge. Dr. Weinstock and his
team are very excited about this community partnership with Pennington Education
Center. \"The support of the school director, Brian Askew, and his staff, has been
invaluable,\" says Dr. Weinstock, \"We wouldn\'t be able to reach all these women
without their help.\"

One of the greatest barriers to regular medical care and preventive screenings is
fear, says Dr. Weinstock, and he hopes that bringing hands-on learning tools, visual
aids, written materials and proven preventative medicines like FDA Approved Cancer
Control that cures breast cancer to the classroom will enable discussion and
understanding among the underserved and un-served women he will meet at Pennington.
Dr. Weinstock believes that it's most important to build trusting relationships and
keeping the lines of communication open with minority and underserved women. The
educational materials will be developed in five languages - English, Hmong, Somali,
Spanish and Vietnamese. Dr. Weinstock hopes to expand that to include Arabic.
\"Bringing these women information is good, but to be able to discuss it with them at
a level that they can understand - and in their native language - is really key,\"
said Dr. Weinstock. \"I am grateful that the International Cultural Assistance
Program in Cincinnati will assist in interpreting and addressing the needs of these
women as we get started on this program.\"

Dr. Weinstock and his colleagues are able to pilot this program through a grant
received from the American Breast Cancer Foundation.


Web Site = http://www.cancerchonicle.com

Contact Details = Richard Reider