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#ICanGoForward:
The Spirit That Inspires
a luncheon celebrating cancer
survivorship and presenting
A conversation with shannon miller and Dee Dee
Ricks
Houston, Texas –
CancerForward: The Foundation For Cancer Survivors (CancerForward)
is pleased to present their first annual luncheon, #ICanGoForward:
The Spirit That Inspires, Celebrating Cancer Survivorship.
Arvia and Jason Few, Brenda Love and
Ed Jones, and Jane and Ed Parks serve as
chairs of this celebratory luncheon on Tuesday, February 28,
2012 at the Hilton-Americas Hotel. Shara Fryer will
serve as the honorary chair of this special day. These
dynamic women Arvia, Brenda, Jane and Shara are not only
chairing this fabulous luncheon but they are all cancer
survivors!
The luncheon will
begin with at 11:30am with a reception followed by lunch and
a conversation moderated by Lisa Malosky with US
Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller and HBO television
personality Dee Dee Ricks, both cancer survivors.
Heralded as next generation leaders in cancer awareness,
Ricks and Miller will share their experiences and discuss
trending practices in cancer survivorship.
All proceeds from
this luncheon benefit CancerForward, a free and unique
web-based networking and educational resource for cancer
survivors of all ages and types of cancer
www.Cancerforward.org
Individual Tickets begin at $250 and tables of 10 begin at
$2,500, for more information on the luncheon or to purchase
tickets or a table, please contact Lee Honeycutt at
713/840-0988 ext. 04 or email
LLH@cancerforward.org.
Shannon Miller is
the most decorated American gymnast, male or female, in
history and the only female athlete to be inducted into the
US Olympics Hall of Fame – twice! At the 1996 Olympic
Games, she led the “Magnificent Seven” to the US Women’s
first ever Team Gold and for the first time for any American
gymnast, she captured gold on the balance beam.
After retiring from
Olympic competition, Shannon received an undergraduate
degree and a law degree from Boston College. She moved from
Olympic athlete to television and radio analyst, commentator
and host. Her company, Shannon Miller Lifestyle: Health and
Fitness for Women, has published a series of fitness books
and cookbooks as well as fitness DVDs. She travels the
country as a highly sought-after motivational speaker and
advocate for women’s health and fitness. In January of
2011, Shannon was diagnosed with a rare malignant germ cell
tumor, a form of ovarian cancer. Now cancer free, Shannon
stands as a strong activist for making fitness and diet a
priority in cancer rehabilitation and survivorship. In
early 2012, she will launch her own television show on the
new Health and Wellness Channel,
the only place
on television for 24-hour health and wellness programming.
Dee Dee Ricks
was
diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2007, an event that
turned the 39-year-old Manhattan hedge fund consultant and
philanthropist into a champion for the uninsured and
underinsured. Her initial activism for healthcare
provisioning and survivorship planning for the poor is at
the center of the HBO documentary, “The Education of Dee Dee
Ricks,” which premiered in October, 2011.
A lead financial supporter of The Ralph
Lauren Cancer Center in Harlem, Ricks sits on the board of
the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, where she
funded a program to provide cancer prevention to women in
rural Arkansas. She chairs the board of The Harold P.
Freeman Patient Navigation Institute, considered the gold
standard training facility for patient navigation, a concept
pioneered by oncologist Harold P. Freeman, MD in 1990 for
the purpose of eliminating barriers to timely cancer
screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship care and
end-of-life-care. Today, on the threshold of publishing her
first book, Ricks travels the globe extending the reach of
patient navigation as a strategy to reduce mortality in
cancer and other chronic diseases.
CancerForward: The
Foundation For Cancer Survivors
(
www.cancerforward.org )
is a free and unique web-based networking and educational
resource for cancer survivors of all ages and all types of
cancers. By design, CancerForward embraces the now
conventional definition of “survivors” thus serving those
living with, through and beyond cancer diagnosis, along with
family members, friends, and caregivers. The Survivor
Network on CancerForward, funded by the Dan L. Duncan
Family, is an online platform that provides survivors and
caregivers virtual support groups in which to share
experiential information about disease-specific issues as
well as health, wellness and practical living issues. The
Foundation’s nonprofit mission is to connect, educate and
share information among cancer survivors, empowering them to
move forward with their lives.
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