Cancer
Inspire Health presents “Adopt an Anti-cancer Lifestyle” event
Join Amber Baker for a presentation that will touch on whole foods, effects of stress, blood sugar regulation, and inflammation and how that affects cancer development. Learn about small changes you can make to support your body towards wellness and build your immune system against cancer and many other lifestyle imbalances.
Read MoreTake Care of the Girls
Colleen O’Neil was recently involved in a surprise gathering of ladies at a lingerie store in Vancouver to make a video encouraging women to participate mammography screening. The message is – if you’re a woman 50 or over, have a mammogram every 2 years. Here is the full video, which has aired, in part, on…
Read MoreEarly Mammography Saved Our Lives
By Meribeth Deen – Editor, Bowen Island Undercurrent March 13, 2014 When the BC Cancer agency approached Colleen O’Neil to get her friends together to film a commercial about mammograms, she responded positively, and invited her friends to meet her at Diane’s Lingerie shop in Vancouver. The premise was a party to support women who’d…
Read MoreColleen O’Neil Blindsided by Breast Cancer Diagnosis at Age 53
Colleen O’Neil says she was blindsided by the diagnosis, at the age of 53, of breast cancer. “There’s no family history, I’ve always been healthy, and I didn’t have any of the risk factors,” said the 61-year-old. Lots of women discover a lump, she notes. But for many, breast cancer – including ductal carcinoma in…
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