Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 11, 1 Nowemapa 2006 — Breast cancer DVD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Breast cancer DVD

'Imi Hale, the Native Hawaiian Cancer Network, has produced a new DVD that seeks to raise breast cancer awareness and encourage women to undergo regular screenings. The DVD features doctors, heahh advocates, a noted kupuna and breast cancer survivors sharing their stories. 'Imi Hale is a program administered by Papa Ola Lōkahi and funded by the National Cancer Institute. The program's goal is to reduce the number of ineidences of cancer among Native Hawaiians nationally and locally. In Hawai'i, Hawaiian women get breast cancer more often than other women, according to 'Imi

Hale. To obtain a DVD, eall the Native Hawaiian Heahh Care System on your island: Ho'ola Lāhui Hawai'i (Kaua'i) at 240-0107 - Kamuela Aea; Ke Ola Mamo (O'ahu) at 8488000 ext. 224 - lan Fernandez; Hui No Ke Ola Pono (Maui) at 442-6831 - Nalani Perreira; Nā Pu'uwai (Moloka'i) at 5303653 - Valerie Starkey; Ke Ola Hou o Lāna'i (Lāna'i) at 565-7204 - lulie Ann Moek Chew; and Hui Mālama Ola Nā 'Ōiwi (Hawai'i) at 969-9220 - Leimomi Shearer.

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Breast cancer survivors Lehua Bissen and Roberta Ka'akua (left and right), along with Lehua's daughter īoni (center), who is an early detection advocate, appear in a new DVD designed to raise awareness about the disease, whieh afflicts Hawaiian women more often than any other group in the islands. - Photo: Courtesy of 'lmi Haie