Cathy Masamitsu’s 1990 report for ABC’s program ‘Home’ features Kansas City, Missouri and the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park there. Continue Reading…
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A Video Portrait of Cancer Survivors Parks
Building Hope – Inspiring Lives | Monuments to the Living: A Portrait of Cancer Survivors Parks.
Produced by the Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc in association with the R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, 1996 Continue Reading…
Positive Mental Attitude Walk Plaques
POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE WALK
- Cancer is the most curable of all chronic diseases.
- There are treatments for every type of cancer. Continue Reading…
Road to Recovery
One of the three elements in a Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park is a Road to Recovery. This consists of seven plaques offering common sense suggestions on fighting cancer Continue Reading…
KC Park wins Design in Excellence Award
Kansas City Home Design and Midwest Commercial Journals awarded the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park a Design in Excellence Silver Award for Outdoor Spaces. Continue Reading…
Visit to Jacksonville Florida Park
My wife Polly and I visited the Cancer Survivors Park in Jacksonville, FL on the day before my last of 39 radiation treatments at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute. The park is on the route we took to the treatment center so we drove by it each day on the way to treatment. Continue Reading…
Park News from Vangie
Congratulations to our wonderful Kansas City park design team!
The recently renovated Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park, located at Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, was recently awarded a Merit Award for Design (Built) by the Central States Region of the American Society of Landscape Architects Continue Reading…
2008 Cancer Survivors Parks Tour
Here’s a tour in photos of many of the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks. Continue Reading…
Cancer Survivors Park
We believe that the second greatest correctable cause of cancer mortality (smoking being #1) is relating death and cancer. Many have been brought up to believe that a diagnosis of cancer means automatic death. Some believe that treatments are worse than death. When they are diagnosed, they give up and do not try to fight. Continue Reading…
Ottawa Ontario Cancer Survivor Park Video
Video tour of the Ottawa, Ontario Cancer Survivor’s Park: Continue Reading…
NCI News
- Hopkins and Dana-Farber researchers report that immune system-based therapy produces lasting remissions in melanoma patients March 6, 2014
- Harvard study finds that younger men benefit most from surgery for localized prostate cancer March 6, 2014
- Dana-Farber study shows more hospital deaths and invasive care for dying cancer patients who receive chemotherapy March 5, 2014
- USC study finds that a diet high in animal proteins may be as bad as smoking in terms of cancer risk March 5, 2014
- Breast Cancer Startup Challenge announces ten winning teams of entrepreneurs; Promising technologies identified to speed cancer research March 5, 2014
Cancer Survivor Parks
