Celebrating Cancer Survivors in Kansas City

June 19, 2009 by Rosanne Wickman 827 views  
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Remarks by Linda Bloch Lyon, vice president of the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, at the 24th annual Kansas City Celebration of Life Rally on National Cancer Survivors Day, Sunday, June 7, 2009…

2009 National Cancer Survivors Day

May 20, 2009 by Vangie Rich 3,843 views  
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1 pm Sunday June 7, 2009 47th and Roanoke, Kansas City, MO Cancer can be battled and beaten! Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park We congratulate Gary Lezak, Chief meteorologist, NBC Action News who will be honored with the 4th annual Richard A. Bloch Cancer Survivorship Award Come join the fun!! For more information [...]

The origin of National Cancer Survivors Day

February 13, 2009 by Richard and Annette Bloch 549 views  
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Very close friends of ours live in Jerusalem, Israel. He is an extremely important and well known man there. Their son was married to our daughter for many years. Several years ago he needed open heart surgery. His family recommended he go to Baltimore, New York, Boston or Cleveland. Suddenly we heard he had the [...]

DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME day

June 3, 2001 by Richard and Annette Bloch 367 views  
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Sunday, June 3, 2001, which is National Cancer Survivors Day, is being designated as “DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME” day! The significance is to try to get all Americans to promptly get a qualified independent second opinion upon the diagnosis of cancer before any treatment. It has been estimated that in excess of 1,000 [...]