Positive Mental Attitude Walk Plaques
September 15, 2009 by Vangie Rich 804 views
Filed under For Patients, Positive Attitude, Survivors Parks
POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE WALK
Cancer is the most curable of all chronic diseases.
There are treatments for every type of cancer.
Some people have been cured from every type of cancer.
There are 10,000,000 living Americans who have been diagnosed with cancer; 5,000,000 are considered cured.
Realize that cancer is a life threatening disease but some beat it. Make up [...]
Road to Recovery
September 10, 2009 by Vangie Rich 388 views
Filed under Road to Recovery, Survivors Parks
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.
Road to Recovery Plaques
CANCER: Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells. Even though it is not the largest killer, it is the most feared disease [...]
A Park for Your City
August 18, 2009 by Vangie Rich 367 views
Filed under Survivors Parks
A PARK FOR YOUR CITY
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
The R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc. is interested in providing funds for the development of parks dedicated to cancer survivors in metropolitan areas with populations of 1,000,000 or more.
The following are components required for consideration:
A community willing to accept a grant from the Foundation of up to [...]
Visit to Jacksonville Florida Park
July 10, 2009 by Staff 722 views
Filed under Virtual Tours
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 [...]
Park News from Vangie
June 19, 2009 by Vangie Rich 719 views
Filed under Design Background
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.
2008 Cancer Survivors Parks Tour
February 17, 2009 by Staff 1,441 views
Filed under Virtual Tours
Cancer Survivors Park
February 13, 2009 by Richard and Annette Bloch 911 views
Filed under Design Background, Programs
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, [...]
Ottawa Ontario cancer survivor park video
February 5, 2009 by Staff 278 views
Filed under Video, Virtual Tours
4:30 video of the Ottawa, Ontario Cancer Survivor’s Park:
Get a second opinion for prompt proper and thorough treatment
February 3, 2009 by Richard and Annette Bloch 283 views
Filed under 2nd Opinions, For Patients, Support, Virtual Tours
The talk around the cancer community today is all about the pharmacist who diluted chemotherapy drugs and the people who suffered and died as a result. It was such a deceitful action with such horrid effects that it is difficult to contemplate. It is hard to imagine a man with ten million dollars even dreaming [...]