Calendar January * February * March * April * May * June * July * August * September * October * November * December January Date Day Location Event Cervical Cancer Awareness Month 18 Friday El Paso Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Western Regional Oncology Conference. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 25-26 Friday-Saturday San Antonio Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Texas School Health Association Conference. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. * Back to the Top * February Date Day Location Event 13-14 Wednesday-Thursday San Antonio Save the Date - Tools for Texans: Helping Communities Fight Cancer It is a unique workshop developed for community stakeholders, healthcare professionals, cancer survivors, volunteers, and anyone who wants to work towards fighting cancer in their community. Registration and event details are online at www.acteva.com/go/toolkit. For more information, call (800)515-6770 or email noep@texasnurses.org. 22 Friday Arlington Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Board Review. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 28 Thursday Austin Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment in Underserved Women. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. * Back to the Top * March Date Day Location Event Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month National Nutrition Month 5-7 Wednesday-Friday San Antonio Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Texas Public Health Association Conference. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 13 Thursday Brownsville The Cancer Nutrition Network for Texans Ms. Normal Castillo will be conducting a Promotora Workshop at 2609 Delia Avenue, #303, Brownsville, Texas 78526. This is a group of 25 promotoras going 'mano a mano' (hand to hand). The training will start at 5 pm. 26-27 Wednesday-Thursday Irving Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Texas Association of Vocational Nurse Educators Spring Conference. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. * Back to the Top * April Date Day Location Event 5 Saturday Laredo Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Screening/Early Detection and Pain Management. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 19 Saturday Tyler Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Oncology Certified Nurse Review Course. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. * Back to the Top * May Date Day Location Event National Women's Check-up Day is May 15 World No Tobacco Day is May 31 Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month 8-9 Wednesday-Thursday Austin Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses DSHS clinical Conference for Breast and Cervical Cancer. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 13 Tuesday Communities across the country LIVESTRONG Day 2008 LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation's one-day initiative to raise awareness and funds for the cancer fight, and we want you to be involved! Be part of a cancer-fighting community by organizing a LIVESTRONG Day event. Register your LIVESTRONG Day event todaty at www.livestrong.org/livestrongday. 13-14 Tuesday-Wednesday Del Rio Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Female Cancer Screening. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 16 Friday Houston Cancer Nutrition Network for Texans One-Day Workshop. For Promotoras in McAllen, El Paso, Corpus Christi and the South Texas Promotora Association. 17 Saturday Lubbock Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Women's Health Update: Insights for Nurses. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. * Back to the Top * June Date Day Location Event 5-6 Thursday-Friday Waco Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses School Nurse Institute. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 7 Saturday Uvalde Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Pain and Palliative Care. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 21 Saturday Mt. Pleasant Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Women's Health Update: Insights for Nurses. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. * Back to the Top * July Date Day Location Event 19 Saturday Austin Continuing Education Offerings for Nurses Holistic Care of the Cancer Patient. For more information or to register, go to www.noeptexas.org or call 800.515.6770. 24-27 Thursday-Sunday Columbus, Ohio 2008 LIVESTRONG Summit Will take place at Ohio State University campus. The LIVESTRONG Summit will bring together delegates from across the country to be inspired, empowered and trained to lead community-centered efforts to help make cancer a national priority. The Foundation will offer travel scholarships for delegates in need of financial assistance. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance and scholarship status by May 9. Apply today at www.livestrong.org/summit. 25-27 Friday-Sunday Baltimore, MD Men Against Breast Cancer Announcing men against breast cancer's 3rd annual national male caregivers conference For more information, go to http://www.menagainstbreastcancer.org/. If you have any questions, please email confinfo@menagainstbreastcancer.org. 30-Aug 1 Wednesday-Thursday San Francisco Save the Date: National Latino Cancer Summit This unique National Latino Cancer Summit brings together cancer researchers, clinicians, health care institutions, and the Latino community to talk about the latest science and services on cancer issues that impact Latinos. Abstracts and/or poster presentations are due April 4, 2008. Go to www.latinascontracancer.org and click on the "Register Now" link. * Back to the Top * August Date Day Location Event No events scheduled at this time. * Back to the Top * September Date Day Location Event Leukemia & Lymphoma Awareness Month Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Prostate Cancer Awareness Month 19-21 Friday-Sunday Houston Sisters Network Inc. The Kroger Company Partners with Sisters Network Inc. To Increase Breast Health Awareness in Houston's African American Community. More than 800 are expected to attend the three-day conference to be held in Houston on September 19-21, 2008 at the Intercontinental Hotel. To register for the conference, please call (713) 781-0255 or visit www.sistersnetworkinc.org. 21-23 sunday-Tuesday Houston Health Disparities symposium of cancer Save the Date! To register, go to http://nblicSRO.msm.edu. For more information, contact The National Black Leadership Initiative of Cancer at 1-800-950-2045 30 - Oct 2 Tuesday-Thursday Houston M. D. Anderson's Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine The 12th Annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Symptom Control, Palliative and Hospice Care Conference at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Intensive Board Review Couse in Hospice & Palliative Medicine. For more information or to register for the conference and the review courses, visit our website www.mdanderson.org/palliativeconference. * Back to the Top * October Date Day Location Event 1-2 Wednesday-Thursday Houston M. D. Anderson's Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine The 12th Annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Symptom Control, Palliative and Hospice Care Conference at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Pain and Symptom Management in Patients with Advance Disease: Clinical Review for Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses. For more information or to register for the conference and the review courses, visit our website www.mdanderson.org/palliativeconference. 3-4 Friday-Saturday Houston M. D. Anderson's Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine The 12th Annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Symptom Control, Palliative and Hospice Care Conference at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. For more information or to register for the conference and the review courses, visit our website www.mdanderson.org/palliativeconference. 30- Nov 1 Thursday-Saturday Austin Save the Date: 19th Annual Meeting Frontiers in Pain Management For more information, go to http://www.aspi.wisc.edu or at 608-265-4013. * Back to the Top * November Date Day Location Event No events scheduled at this time. * Back to the Top * December Date Day Location Event 5-6 Friday-Saturday Dallas A Common Thread 2008 Clinical & Practical Tools for Supporting Human Resilience. The American Cancer Society, the Texas Partnership for End-of-Life Care, and the Nurse Oncology Education Program invite you to participate in our 5th annual professional education conference. For more information contact Helen Ross Petty, go to www.txpex.org or call 512.590.0975. * Back to the Top *

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August 6 at the American Cancer Society in Austin

November 5 at the American Cancer Society in Austin

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