Race News

Postmark deadline for donations is Friday, November 6, 2009.  If you are collecting cash and checks, please make sure that you put them in the mail this Friday to qualify for incentive prizes. The mailing address is 6701 Baum Dr. #255 Knoxville, TN 37919 (Click here to see the prizes)  You can use the pledge form to record your collected donations.  You have until Friday, November 13, 2009 to raise funds ONLINE.  So click here to login and email 10 friends and ask them to donate $10.  If everyone that registered for the Race for the Cure this year raised $100, we would raise well over a million dollars.  We would like to reach our stretch goal of $375,000.

Team Captains and top fundraising individuals! Mark your calendars for Monday, November 30, 2009 from 6:30-7:30.  We will be honoring the top 3 individual fundraisers overall, as well as the top 3 team fundraisers in four (4) categories: Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large.  This event will take place at Cherokee Health System’s Community Room on Western Ave.  Winners will be notified the week of November 16.

If you have not yet filled out the survey regarding your experience with the 2009 Komen Knoxville Race for the Cure, please click here to do so.

Congratulations to Team Participation Award Winners!

College Organization: First Place: Zeta Tau Alpha & Second Place:  Gamma Sigma Sigma

Community Organization: First Place: Tellico Village & Second Place: Body for Life

Corporation: First Place: ALCOA & Second Place: Team UT Battelle

Faith Based Group: First Place: Sherry’s Sisters in Christ & Second Place: Brenda’s Victory

Friends and Family: First Place: Save Second Base & Second Place: Mammaries on a Mission

Government Agency: First Place Y-12 National Security Complex/UPF & Second Place: Team KPD

Hospital: First Place: Blount Memorial Bosom Buddies & Second Place: Mercy Pink Patrol

Race Sponsor: First Place: UT Medical Center & Second Place: Odom Construction

School: First Place: Fabulous Five for a Cure & Second Place: WEBB WALKS for the Cure

Small Business: First Place: Premier Building Maintenance & Second Place: Harley’s Angels

Small Medical: First Place: Premier Surgical & Second Place: Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Largest New Team:  Tennessee State Bank

Largest Overall Team: Blount Memorial Bosom Buddies

Kim Wilson Spirit Award: Blount Memorial Bosom Buddies

If you have not picked up your plaque, please stop by our office on at 6701 Baum Dr. #255 Knoxville, TN 37919 Monday- Friday 10-4.

Opp T. Mistic to benefit Komen Knoxville

Opp T. Mistic was painted in honor of a best friend of the artist, Kim Green. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2008 and is currently going thru a second round of chemotherapy. Green wanted to do something to raise awareness of breast cancer and Opp T. Mistic was born. This is an original acrylic painting on 24×36 stretched canvas, framed in black. Her name is a configuration of her friend’s name and attitude throughout her fight. Opp T. Mistic is being auctioned off in a Silent Auction through kgartstudioonline.com. 100% of the winning bid will go to Komen Knoxville. Artdealers.com is also presenting a check for 15% of the winning bid. The frame was donated by Smith-Strickland Interior Design Services, Knoxville TN. The painting is on display at Gift Gourmet & Interiors at Colony Place in West Knoxville, where you may also place a bid. The auction ends on November 15, 2009.

Comments on Mammography Leading to Over-Diagnosis and Over-Treatment (Dr. Eric Winer, October 2009)

Recent media attention has shed light on the issue of mammography leading to over-diagnosis and over-treatment. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers from Copenhagen analyzed breast cancer trends in the years before and after the initiation of government-run mammography screening programs in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Norway. The data covered a period of at least seven years before and after screening. The results suggested that one in three women who were identified as having breast cancer might not have needed treatment.  Unfortunately, we do not know which women would have done well without treatment, and which would develop a life-threatening (and in some cases, life-ending) disease if the cancer were not treated.

The problem with mammography is magnified when we also consider non-invasive breast cancer, or ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Click here to read more.

Affiliate News

2010-11 Community Grant applications are now available online at www.komenknoxville.org/grants.  Deadline for submission is Friday, December 4, 2009.