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Honor Thy Healer

Save the Date! Our annual Honor Thy Healer awards celebration will be held on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at the Mill Valley Community Center. The celebration honors healthcare professionals and special individuals who have played pivotal roles in helping people in their experiences with breast cancer.

Raffle Prize: Custom Handcrafted Quilt
This year's raffle prize is a beautiful, handmade quilt that was made specifically for Honor Thy Healer. Bay Area quilter, Lori Parrini-Adamus, has been sewing most of her life and quilting for the past five years. She is a free cutter quilter who uses the fabrics like paints on a canvas. She describes the quilt that she made for Honor Thy Healer as "an assortment of greens to capture the colors of the Zero Breast Cancer logo. I tried to incorporate zeros into the material pattern, as well. There are some wonderful Japanese materials throughout the quilt, giving it texture and calmness. The nine squares in the center represent change…let go and live life". If you would like to see the quilt in person, please drop by the office, Monday through Friday between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. Tickets are $10/each; 3/$25; 6/$50.	(Click on the image to view in larger detail)

For further information or to request an invitation, please contact Sharon Doyle at sharond@zerobreastcancer.org or call 415-507-1949 ext. 102.

Dipsea Hike/Run
Saturday, September 6, 2008

Save the Date! The annual Dipsea Hike/Run in honor of Annie Fox will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2008. We will convene at Old Mill Park in Mill Valley and follow a course that includes parts of the famous Dipsea Trail, the Sun Trail, Redwood Trail and up to the Mountain Home Inn, where the course will loop around back down Edgewood to end at Old Mill Park. There will be a post-hike celebration that includes food and beverages for the participants and their families. Keep checking back for more details!

What:	Dipsea Hike/Run (in honor of Annie Fox)
When:	Saturday, September 6, 2008 9:00 am
Where:	Old Mill Park, Mill Valley, CA
Registration Fee:	$50

The planning committee meets in the evenings during the summer months. If you would like to be part of our planning committee, please contact Sharon Doyle, Development Director, at 415-507-1949 ext 102, or email her at: sharond@zerobreastcancer.org.

Infineon Raceway Go-Karting
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Infineon Raceway and the Russell Driving School will be the venue for a fundraising event this fall for Zero Breast Cancer. It will be a full day of racing on Infineon Raceway's lightning quick karting track with professional driving instruction, courtesy of the Russell Driving School. In addition to instruction, you will have the use of a kart, a driving suit and helmet, lunch and the possibility of being one of ten finalists who will compete in a timed lapping at the end of the day.

Tickets are $250. There are only 40 slots available. If you would like to be added to the invitation list or would like to make a reservation now, please call Sharon Doyle at 415-507-1949 ext 102, or send an email to sharond@zerobreastcancer.org.

Alice Music 11

Alice Music 11 is an annual CD that raises funds for many Bay Area breast cancer organizations. Zero Breast Cancer is one of the beneficiaries this year. The CD is available at all Bay Area Starbucks.

Visit www.radioalice.com for more information about this fundraising project.

Past Events

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Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center
3^rd Annual Town Hall Meeting

This event was held on March 1st, 2008. Please check back for summaries of the 3^rd Annual Town Hall Meeting Translating Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Into Action. They will be available in the coming weeks.

To view the program and list of speakers, please download the following forms:

• Town Hall Program
• Speaker Bios

Dipsea Hike/Run 2007
In honor of Annie Fox

Thank you to all of the community members, businesses, volunteers, sponsors and Planning Committee members whose generosity helped make the 5th annual Dipsea Hike/Run a success!

We will post more information and pictures from the event in the coming weeks!

Honor Thy Healer 2007

The eighth annual Honor Thy Healer awards celebration was held on Thursday, May 3, 2007. The celebration honored healthcare professionals and special individuals who have played pivotal roles in helping people in their experiences with breast cancer.

Click here to see photos from the event!

Honorary Chair

Zero Breast Cancer is pleased to welcome Cynthia Murray, President and CEO of the North Bay Leadership Council, as the Honorary Chair of the 2007 Honor Thy Healer Awards. A breast cancer survivor, activist and leader in both Marin and Sonoma counties, Cynthia Murray is dedicated to supporting breast cancer research and awareness, improving quality of life, and creating a healthy community.

Cynthia has a long history of political leadership in the Marin and Sonoma communities, serving for seven years on the Novato City Council, including one term as Mayor and eight years on the Marin County Board of Supervisors, representing North Marin. Currently, she is the President and CEO of the North Bay Leadership Council (NBLC). NBLC represents employers located in Sonoma and Marin Counties who are working together for regional prosperity and quality of life.

A staunch supporter of Zero Breast Cancer and community advocacy, Cynthia believes that health and quality of life can be improved through partnerships between the community, their elected officials and their business leaders. According to Cynthia, "I think it is very important that you get involved if you want to have a role in how things are going to be. There is a saying by Voltaire: 'Every man is guilty of the good he didn't do.' I am one of those people who says, 'Don't even tell me about it because once I know about it, I feel I have to do something about it.'"

The Healing Professional Honoree

Zero Breast Cancer is pleased to present the 2007 Healing Professional Award to Cindi Cantril, RN, OCN, MPH. Cindi is the Breast Health Program Coordinator and lead Nurse Navigator at the Marin Cancer Institute. She was nominated for this award by numerous colleagues and patients alike who praised her expertise, compassion and commitment.

A certified oncology nurse who has dedicated her entire professional career to cancer, Cindi guides her patients through their medical care, facilitates support groups and conducts recovery programs. Cindi is a nationally recognized leader in oncology nursing and is a founding board member and first vice president of the Oncology Nursing Society. She developed the Big Sky Cancer Recovery and Resource Center in Bozeman, Montana prior to being recruited to the Marin Cancer Institute in 2004 to expand the breast health program and develop its survivorship program. Cindi received her nursing degree from Meramec Community College, her bachelor's degree in psychology from Lindenwood College, and her masters in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Cindi's work in breast cancer detection and diagnosis covers the spectrum, from diagnostic testing and biopsies to to counseling newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer through recovery and survivorship programs. She supports the work of the entire team of treating professionals at the Marin Cancer Institute. In addition, she brought the Healing with Horses equine therapy program to Marin County.

One of Cindi's patients expressed it best when she said, "To call Cindi an advocate, an ombudsman, a friend, while accurate, are not sufficient to describe her. Cindi performs her job with a passion few of us can hope to find in any occupation. Those who know her suspect that she came from the womb fully formed as an oncology nurse. Surely she was born for this work."

The Shining Star Award

Gordon Manashil, MD is the recipient of the 2007 Shining Star award, both for his pioneering work in breast cancer prevention and diagnosis, and also for his passionate commitment to the health and well-being of the community that he has served for over 30 years.

Dr. Manashil came to Kaiser Permanente San Rafael in 1980 as Chief of Radiology. Always looking for new and better ways to care for patients, he was a leader in making breast care for women not a passive contribution for radiologists, but an active one, from needle localizations to the more sophisticated imaging processes that are untilized today. His contributions have reached beyond Marin County. He instituted and chaired Kaiser Permanente Northern California's annual education courses in mammographic interpretation and breast cancer diagnosis. He spearheaded the implementation of diagnostic modalities, including steriotactic and ultrasound-guided biopsy techniques. He also developed the mammography transcription reporting protocol in the 1980's that is still used at Kaiser today.

As Physician-in-Chief of Kaiser Permanente San Rafael, a position he has held since 1999, Dr. Manashil has been entrusted with the care of almost half of the families in Marin County. Gordon Manashil exemplifies the Kaiser Permanente philosophy that giving back to the community is one of the most important things that a physician and a medical group can do. "Healthy Community" is what Kaiser San Rafael is about, and Dr. Manashil has demonstrated this throughout his long and distinguished career as a physician, a medical staff leader, an educator, a community supporter and a breast cancer advocate.

Dr. Manashil retires in June of this year and we know that he will maintain his commitment to medicine, the community and breast cancer.

The Community Breast Cancer Research Award

The 2007 Community Breast Cancer Research Award is being given this year to two separate organizations that actively participate in community-based research projects with Zero Breast Cancer.

Larry Meredith, PhD, Director of Health and Human Services for the County of Marin, initiated by a community-focused approach in 2006 to studying breast cancer in Marin County. Concerned about the high breast cancer rates in Marin, the Department of Health and Human Services launched the Marin Women's Study to help better understand why breast cancer risks do not affect all women the same way.

Larry Meredith leads the County's Community Epidemiology team, which includes: Rochelle Ereman, MS, MPH, Program Manager and Principal Investigator; Kathy Koblick, MPH, Project Coordinator; and Lee Ann Prebil, PhD, Mark Powell, MD, MPH, and Chris Corniola, MPH, epidemiologists.

The Marin Women's Study is gathering data about risk factors, biological factors, and breast health to better understand how they are associated with breast cancer. It is the first prospective study in Marin County to link individual risk factors with biospecimens and breast cancer outcomes.

This study is a community effort with collaboration from the Marin Cancer Institute, University of California San Francisco, Buck Institute for Age Research, Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Zero Breast Cancer, the Northern California Cancer Center, and many local community groups and community members.

The 2007 Community Breast Cancer Research Award is also being presented to Larry Kushi, ScD, Associate Director for Etiology and Prevention Research at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research. We are recognizing Larry for the scope of his research in studying breast cancer across the life span.

Dr. Kushi is the principal investigator in two breast cancer research studies with Zero Breast Cancer. The CYGNET study is looking at puberty in young girls, focusing on early life exposures that may influence breast cancer risk later in life. The Pathways study examines survivorship in women with breast cancer and the factors that may be associated with recurrence rates, survival rates, and better prognosis. Dr. Kushi nicknamed these two projects his "breast cancer bookend studies," because between each study, a more comprehensive portion of the life span is taken into account to broaden the spectrum of what we know about breast cancer.

Larry discovered epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His interests started in nutrition and coronary disease and evolved into cancer, and then more specifically, breast cancer. After working for several years at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, he was lured to Northern California to take a position at Kaiser Permanente as head of the epidemiology group.

In a distinguished career full of accomplishments, the thing that Larry is most proud of was serving as the Chair of the American Cancer Society's Committee on Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines for Cancer Prevention last year.

Zero Breast Cancer is fortunate to have a colleague and collaborator in Dr. Larry Kushi.

The Healing Partner Award

Daliah Neuberger, San Francisco native and Novato resident, is this year's Healing Partner honoree. Daliah nurtured and cared for her sister, Orah Sholin, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer late last year.

Orah and Daliah were very close growing up. After their parents died, Daliah moved to Marin to be closer to her only sister and her family. Being neighbors is only a part of the time they spend together. They also share their professional lives through their work at Tiburon's Temple Kol Shofar. When Orah was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, Daliah immediately took charge of her sister's care. After each chemotherapy treatment, Orah recuperated at Daliah's home. Daliah became her companion, cook, chauffeur, cap-knitter and doer of anything else that was needed to make her sister comfortable. After every chemo treatment, Daliah created a clever "chemo trading card" as a way of counting down the treatments until they were over.

Daliah was nominated for the Healing Partner award by her sister, Orah, in appreciation for the love and support she received from her beloved sister during the early stages of her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

The Francine Levien Activist Award

Tiburon lawyer turned activist, Stephen Joseph is our 2007 Francine Levien Activist Award honoree.

Born and raised in England, Steve came to Marin County after spending his early years in the United States on the East Coast. Upon completing law school, he worked as a lawyer and a lobbyist in Washington, DC for almost twenty years before moving to the Bay Area in 1997. He continued to work here as a civil litigator representing business clients.

A few years later, Steve's stepfather died of a heart attack. What he learned about transfat subsequent to his stepfather's death changed his life. Motivated by his belief that people should be made aware of the dangers of transfat, he launched his ban transfat campaign. He filed a lawsuit against Kraft regarding Oreo cookies, and later against McDonald's. Within months of the Oreo lawsuit, the FDA issued its transfat labeling regulations. The fact that transfat labeling is on virtually every product packaged today is in large part the result of Steve's Oreo lawsuit.

With the success of Steve's ban transfat campaign, Tiburon became America's first transfat-free city. Thinking that Sausalito would be next, Steve was amazed that New York City became the second city to ban transfat. Next was Philadelphia and now it is spreading across the country, including California.

Stephen Joseph took a public health issue and turned it into a crusade. He approached the ban transfat campaign with a commitment and determination that Francine would have been proud of.

Zero Breast Cancer Signature Events

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Zero Breast Cancer is an active partner in the community and works to include as many supporters as possible in the activities of the organization.

Honor Thy Healer

Each year, Zero Breast Cancer hosts an awards ceremony to recognize individuals who play the important role of supporter and healer in breast cancer treatment, either in a professional or personal way.

Dipsea Hike/Run

To promote the importance of physical fitness in the fight against breast cancer, Zero Breast Cancer holds an annual Dipsea Hike/Run on the famed route on Mount Tamalpais. The event is held in honor of former Zero Breast Cancer board member Annie Fox, who passed away in 2002 at age 35 after a fight against breast cancer.

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