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Preparing for the Great American Smoke-out: It starts one day at a time

ASCCC and donation partners join in the relief effort

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 The American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition (ASCCC) has begun to receive various donations to provide assistance to those families who are victims of the recent Tsunami.  According to Vice Chairman, Rochelle Reid, "From the first wave of paypal donations food, toiletries, batteries, flashlights, etc.

Cancer Survivor's Support Group Presents Stipend

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Publication Date: 
July 4, 2009
Faasegi Caldwell Presents Stipend to Valasi Tea, a Leukemia patient.

A cancer stipend award of $500 was presented by Faasegi Caldwell of the Cancer Survivor's Support Group to Valasi Tea of Fagasa. Ms Tea is 14-years-old and she was diagnosed with lymphoma at LBJ. She went to Hawaii and she was diagnosed with leukemia in March 2008. She had chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Hawaii.

Valasi is here to visit her father and family and will return to Hawaii next week for her follow-up check. She is having monthly chemotherapy treatment at Queens hospital in Hawaii.

Funds for these stipends are donations from the business community

Chande Lutu-Drabble's Survivor Story

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Tina Drabble (left) and her mother, Chande Lutu (right)

My name is Chande Lutu-Drabble, and I was and always will be a Caregiver for my daughter who is a Cancer Survivor. I have just returned home after living over a year in San Diego, where my daughter had undergone treatment for melanoma cancer. When I went up to be with my daughter, I didn’t know what to expect, other than doing things that any mother would normally do; caring for my child and just being there as her companion.

I recall the greatest challenge I had to overcome when I became aware of the condition of my daughter was fear. It was the worst kind of fear—and that is: fear based on ignorance.

Newsletter - January 2007

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Highlights from this issue of the ASCCC newsletter for January 2007.

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Have you heard "Tasi le Ola"?

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May 28, 2009
Elderly lady dancing at Tasi Le Ola launch event.

The American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition (ASCCC), a non-profit, non-governmental, community-based organization, kicked off the first ever cancer prevention radio drama called “Tasi le Ola” at Utulei Beach Saturday May 23.

Nearly over 200 people turned out to hear the creative and talented finalists in the radio drama theme song contest perform their original songs. The ASCCC received 12 song entries. Each song was judged on how well the lyrics encouraged women to be healthy and expressed the show’s theme “tasi le ola”—you only have one life so be healthy.

American Samoa Community Cancer Network

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http://crchd.cancer.gov/cnp/pi-tofaeono-abstract.html

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The specific goals of this project, entitled American Samoan Community Cancer Network (ASCC Network), are to reduce cancer incidence and mortality among Samoans in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa through the establishment of a sustainable infrastructure to:

(1) promote cancer awareness within American Samoan communities; and 
(2) initiate a cancer research and training program to develop indigenous Samoan researchers. 

American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition partners with Hawaiian Airlines to provide assistance to cancer patient.

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March 23, 2009

The American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition, a non profit local organization dedicated to the welfare of patients diagnosed with cancer, recently partnered with Hawaiian Airlines to provide travel assistance to a patient recently diagnosed with cancer. An airline ticket was donated by Hawaiian Airlines during the ASCCC’s 2008 Mardi Gras Event. The winner of the Mardi Gras Event, Mr. Brett Butler, gifted the ticket back to provide assistance for any cancer patient that needed travel off island.

ASCCC looking for volunteers

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The American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition (ASCCC) has received grant funding to investigate alternative and complementary medicines (non-Western medicines) used by women age 40 and older in American Samoa.

The ASCCC is currently seeking these individuals to interview in February:

  • Women diagnosed with breast cancer or cervical cancer
  • Family members of women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer
  • Traditional Samoan healers (Fofo/Taulasea)

If you or someone you know is willing to be interviewed for our project please contact the American Samoa Community Cancer Coalition office at 684-633-4589 or  684-633-5056 and 684-252-1556, or Email amsamccn@gmail.com.

 

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