October 14, 2022
Oct. 18 (Tuesday):
ASU Health Services Hosts 'Stomp Out Cancer' Events at Mid-day & Evening
- Join us for free 34-gene oral testing, a symposium, support walk, survivor testimony, free food & more.
- Partnering with the Hudson Alpha Group, Dr. Porcia Love, M.D. and the Montgomery
Chapter of LINKS.
If you wish to support the fight against cancer and would like to know if you are
predisposed to certain types of the insidious disease then join us in-person at Alabama
State University's Health Service's department on Tuesday (Oct. 18) as it hosts its
annual "Stomp Out Cancer" event on the ASU Campus at both lunch time and in the evening.
Partnering with the University to host the events are the Hudson Alpha Group, Dr.
Porcia Love, M.D. and the Montgomery Chapter of LINKS.
DAY'S ROOSTER OF EVENTS - LUNCHTIME AND EVENING
Tuesday's events are both free and open to the public and are for both men and women.
Included in the day's first batch of events between
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. is the "Stomp Out Cancer Walk" that begins in front of the ASU Acadome
and ends at the ASU John Garrick Hardy Student Center Amphitheater. The event at the
amphitheater includes a cancer survivor testimony, the free 34-gene oral swab tests,
food, and fun stuff.
The day's cancer fighting events continue at 6 p.m. at the Hardy Student Center second-floor
Theater for the Breast Cancer Symposium that provides education on the importance
of self-breast exams, provides medical updates from local physicians concerning cancer,
shares heartwarming stories from cancer survivors with an overarching goal that early
detection can yield better cancer outcomes.
ASU'S HEALTH OFFICER LEADS ASU'S EFFORT
ASU's senior director of Health Services, Dr. Joyce Loyd-Davis (known for implementing
ASU President Quinton T. Ross Jr.'s early and aggressive fight against the COVID-19
Pandemic by ASU staff through testing, education and vaccines) is coordinating the
cancer prevention events. She explains that the University is hosting the Stomp Out
Cancer program annually to promote cancer awareness and health education among both
the public and members of the Hornet Nation Family.
She said that the University has created access and assistance for regular community
residents, as well as for at-risk citizens in underserved areas and rural communities
and in Montgomery and on-campus.
"Dr. Ross has told us that giving back is the community is critical to our mission.
To hear someone say 'ASU thought enough about us to come and help both us and our
community' is absolutely heartwarming and motivates us to do more," stated ASU's Health
Officer.
News media contact: Kenneth Mullinax, 334-229-4104.
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