What's New

	New Partnership with Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear Celebrate Your Birthday With A Mammogram Kentucky’s new First Lady, Jane Beshear, will be working with KCP on a statewide campaign, Celebrate Your Birthday With A Mammogram, to promote breast cancer screening among low income women and seniors.  The program is funded by a grant from the Kentucky Breast Cancer Trust Fund, which is supported by proceeds from breast cancer license sales and tax check-off.
	2010 Cancer Survivor Celebration Faces of Cancer Another successful Cancer Survivor Celebration took place on April 29, 2010!  The James Graham Brown Cancer Center and Kentucky Cancer Program invited cancer survivors to attend the 11th annual Cancer Survivor Celebration in a new location this year.  The celebration took place inside the Clinical and Translational Research Building.  There was music, food, informational booths, guest speakers, and the Pegasus Parade!  Faces of Cancer was our theme this year for the celebration.  Several cancer survivors had their photos taken to help create our invitation for the party and a video.  View video of these cancer survivors.
	UL Baseball Coach Dan McDonnell KCP and Play It Safe In The Sun teamed up with the University of Louisville's head Baseball Coach Dan McDonnell, to create a PSA on sun safety to help spread the word about the use of sunscreen.  Coach McDonnell is an avid sunscreen user and encourages everyone, even his athletes, to "choose their cover and wear an SPF of 15 or higher" when going outdoors. Fore more information on the use of sunscreen or about our Play It Safe In The Sun campaign, please contact Jaime Caudill at 502-852-6318.   Coach McDonnel supports sun safety, View video
	Pink Out at Kentucky Oaks 2010 Pink Out at Kentucky Oaks was another great success!  Racing fans cheered not only for the horses but Breast cancer survivors dressed in pink walking around the track to help kick off the 136th Kentucky Oaks as well as raise breast cancer awareness.  Breast cancer survivors enjoyed races all day and also had the opportunity to meet First Lady of Kentucky, Jane Beshear.   Pink Out at Kentucky Oaks was a great way to showcase one of our special projects, Horses & Hope.  This project's mission is to increase breast cancer awareness, education, screening, and treatment referral among Kentucky's horse industry workers and their families.  View Pink Out at Kentucky Oaks photos (3 total).
	March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month Save LIves, Promote Colon Cancer Screening and Dress in Blue on March 5th Coach Rick Pitino supports Dress in Blue Day, View video Join the Kentucky Cancer Program, District Cancer Councils, businesses, schools, churches and organizations across the state in the second annual nationwide campaign to promote colon cancer awareness and screening. Use the on-line Resource Kit with promotional materials and educational resources.  Retrieve Resource Kit. For more information contact your regional KCP office.
	New Funding for Hispanic Outreach Programs KCP has been awarded funds from the Louisville and Evansville Affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Kentucky Department for Public Health to hire bilingual community outreach workers to provide education and to promote breast and cervical cancer screening.
	New Contract for In-Patient Smoking Cessation Demonstration Project The Kentucky Department for Public Health has negotiated a contract with KCP to develop and implement demonstration projects in select Kentucky hospitals to implement hospital-based tobacco cessation programs during in-patient stays.
	New Resource Kit for African Americans with Cancer African Americans who have been diagnosed with cancer can now receive a beautiful resource bag filled with wonderful information and gifts to help them through their journey with cancer.  The program is funded by the Harriett B. Porter Education and Research Endowment.
	KCP Reaches Out to Boat People SOS KCP has expanded their breast cancer outreach programs to a new group at-risk for cancer.  Funds from Susan G. Komen for the Cure will support education and mammography promotion among Louisville’s Boat People SOS.
	New Workshop and Toolkit for Kentucky Businesses In response to the growing list of communities enacting laws to protect citizens from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, KCP is presenting workshops and distributing toolkits across the state to provide guidance on developing and implementing a smoke free policy in the workplace.
	Harriett B. Porter Culinary Institute African American churches in Metro Louisville are invited to participate in this new program sponsored by the Harriett B. Porter Cancer Research and Education Endowment.  KCP is partnering with Sullivan University for a culinary experience to help kitchen ministries by encouraging them to prepare healthier food for their congregations.