UAB: Comprehensive Cancer Center

August 29, 2011

UAB’s Women & Infant’s Center, North Pavilion and UAB Highlands will be lit in teal in during September to signal Ovarian Cancer Awareness month and support planned activities.

UAB’s Alys Stephens Center will host “From Broadway to Birmingham” with a performance of playwright and cancer survivor Jenny Allen’s “I Got Sick Then I Got Better” at 7 p.m. Sept. 1, 2011. The show will benefit the Lynne Cohen and Norma Livingston Preventative Care Program for Women’s Cancers at UAB. For information and tickets, visit www.nlovca.org or www.AlysStephens.org.

The CanSurvive GYN Cancer Support Group will have a GYN Cancer Awareness table at the UAB North Pavilion elevators 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sept. 6 to provide information and educational materials. For more information, visit www.cansurvivesupportgroup.org.

Alabama also offers a Drive Out Ovarian Cancer car tag to raise money for ovarian cancer research that can be purchased at any local Department of Motor Vehicles. The $50 car tag is tax-deductible, courtesy of the Norma Livingston Ovarian Cancer Foundation. For more information, visit nlovca.org/car-tag.

Each year more than 21,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and about 15,000 women die from the disease.