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    Health Events

    Markstein Cancer Education and Prevention Services offers several events each year and on an ongoing basis. Below is a brief list of some of those cancer-related programs.


    Ongoing & Monthly Events

    • Ongoing: Cancer Support Groups
    • Monthly: "Transitions"
    • Monthly: "Cancer in Other Words" Writing Workshop
    • Monthly: "Diet & Prostate Cancer in African American Men" research program screenings
    • Monthly: "Nourishing the Mind-Body Connection for Better Health": A series of four workshops for cancer survivors and their caretakers to learn an array of mind-body practices to soothe the physical being and emotional soul.

    Spring Events

    • Bay Area Cancer Forums
    • Early spring - Prostate cancer screening
    • Late spring - Skin cancer screening

    Summer Events

    • Skin cancer screenings

    Fall Events

    • September: Two-day free prostate cancer screening for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
    • November: Free prostate cancer screening
    • Bay Area Cancer Forums
    • Educational Forum on Lung Cancer

    Winter Events

    • Bay Area Cancer Forums


    For more information about the locations, dates and times of these events, please contact Markstein Cancer Education & Prevention Services at (510) 869-8833.
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