1996-36586-Resolution No. 96-131 Recorded 10/3/19969F-3S%E]#SG 15 }-2794
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
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A Resolution Proclaiming * k
October, 1996, as Breast *
Cancer Awareness Month. * o
RESOLUTION NO. 96-131
WHEREAS, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer- ring the
course of her lifetime;
WHEREAS, approximately 40 Oregon women are diagnosed with breast
cancer each week; and
WHEREAS, in 1994, 77 women and in 1995, 75 women in
Central/Eastern Oregon were diagnosed with breast cancer which
affected our families and our community;
WHEREAS, the five year survival rate for early state (localized -
not spread to other tissues) breast cancer has risen from 78 percent
in the 1940's to about 96 percent in 1996; and
WHEREAS, new partnerships are emerging between St. Charles
Medical Center/Sara Fisher Project/American Cancer Society, health
care providers, community organizations and Crook, Deschutes, Grant
Harney, Jefferson, N. Lake and Wheeler County Health Departments
creating the Women's Health Coalition of Central and Eastern Oregon to
assure education, early detection, and screening services to women;
and
WHEREAS, in 1996/97 this partnership is offering 300 free
screenings, mammograms and education to promote early detection
specifically among women forty and over who are uninsured or
underinsured; and
IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED, that the Deschutes County Board of
Commissioners hereby recognizes the month of October, 1996, as Breast
Cancer Awareness Month and urges all County citizens to fight Breast
Cancer with their families and communities through education, use of
yearly detection measures and encouragement of further research.
DATED this 2nd day of October, 1996, by the Deschutes County
Board of Commissioners. ,
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Recording Secre ary
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Barry H1 Slaughter, Commissioner
Robert L. Nipper, Commissioner
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Nov 2 96 ()vT 0 1996