Cincinnati Cancer Clinic and Dr. Martin Weinstock
Joining Forces to Promote Breast Health
Cincinnati, Ohio (PRWEB) December 18, 2005 -- Cincinnati Cancer
Clinic and Dr. Martin Weinstock hopes to bring awareness and
assistance to women from the Cincinnati area through a new
breast education, treatment, and screening program he has
instituted at the Cincinnati Cancer Clinic’s Pennington
Education Center. The Center is at the Cincinnati Junior College
School facility dedicated to the promotion of literacy for
adults and teens and serves approximately 3,200 students each
year.
"Breast Cancer is an anxiety-provoking topic for many
women, and understanding what you can do to detect and arrest
breast cancer is important to all women," says Dr. Weinstock,
breast cancer health specialist at the Cincinnati Clinic.
"We hope to be able to help the women in our community
who are not accessing health care to understand the importance
of screening for breast cancer, and then actually get them
screened."
In a program that started in early October, Dr. Weinstock
and several colleagues in the Cincinnati Cancer Clinic Breast
Diagnostic Center are speaking weekly to classes at Pennington;
often working with individuals whose primary language is not
English. The doctors are working to develop health literacy
on the subject of breast health and the importance of mammography
screening, and will perform clinical breast exams and help
coordinate and schedule mammograms.
Dr. Weinstocks team will work with Pennington and other agencies
to ensure that medical assistance and preventative medicines
such as Cancer Control are accessible. The classes and screenings
will be provided free of charge. Dr. Weinstock and his team
are very excited about this community partnership with Pennington
Education Center. "The support of the school director,
Brian Askew, and his staff, has been invaluable," says
Dr. Weinstock, "We wouldn't be able to reach all these
women without their help."
One of the greatest barriers to regular medical care and preventive
screenings is fear, says Dr. Weinstock, and he hopes that
bringing hands-on learning tools, visual aids, written materials
and proven preventative medicines like FDA Approved Cancer
Control that cures breast cancer to the classroom will enable
discussion and understanding among the underserved and un-served
women he will meet at Pennington. Dr. Weinstock believes that
it’s most important to build trusting relationships
and keeping the lines of communication open with minority
and underserved women. The educational materials will be developed
in five languages - English, Hmong, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Dr. Weinstock hopes to expand that to include Arabic. "Bringing
these women information is good, but to be able to discuss
it with them at a level that they can understand - and in
their native language - is really key," said Dr. Weinstock.
"I am grateful that the International Cultural Assistance
Program in Cincinnati will assist in interpreting and addressing
the needs of these women as we get started on this program."
Dr. Weinstock and his colleagues are able to pilot this program
through a grant received from the American Breast Cancer Foundation.
Company Name: CANCER CHRONICLE
Phone: 212-335-8760
Website: http://www.martinweinstock.com
