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Improving Community Health -- $7.4 million, supporting more than 279,000 people Healthy Mind-Body-Spirit
“Sistahs Helping Sistahs” attendees learned how to perform a breast self-exam and a 28-year-old participant -- with no family history of breast cancer -- detected a lump in her breast. After further follow-up, a biopsy proved the tumor benign. Ms. M contacted “Sistahs Helping Sistahs” organizers to express her gratitude for the information and screening that led her to seek help, and for the strength and motivation she experienced at the women’s event. Ms. M vowed to share her experience with her immediate circle of family, friends and beyond. |
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“Sistahs Helping Sistahs” brought together more than 100 women at a north St.
Louis County church for a day of education and screenings surrounding women’s
health issues including female cancers, reproductive problems, menopause,
parenting, mental health, sexually transmitted diseases and wellness indicators.
Speaking at the event was a breast cancer survivor from The Witness Project, a
Siteman Cancer Center program through which African-American women witness about
their triumph over breast or cervical cancer in churches and community centers.
