Relay for Life Returns!

Relay for Life of the East Bay will be held IN PERSON this September (date TBD) at Chabot College in Hayward. Relay for Life is dedicated to helping communities team up to attack cancer. When we rally together by donating time, funds, and awareness, we can accomplish anything! Relay for Life of the East Bay includes teams from Castro Valley, Hayward, San Leandro, and San Lorenzo which truly embraces all of our communities. 

It is a nationwide fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and provides FREE valuable resources, programs, wigs, transportation and lodging, and so much more. It is a celebration of cancer survivors and caregivers, who are the heart of every Relay. There are almost 17 million cancer survivors in the United States thanks, in part, to early cancer detection. 

Are you up-to-date with your annual mammogram? How about your colonoscopy? Did you know the only cancer vaccine is for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) which prevents 90% of HPV cancers? American Cancer Society offers smoking cessation resources so you can kick the habit that contributes to the number one cancer killer: lung cancer. 

All resources and programs are free because of fundraisers like Relay for Life. Want to join or start a team? Maybe donate your time to setting up the field? How about sponsoring the event or a team? Your business will receive recognition. Go to www.RelayForLife.org to learn how you can help Fight Back or call Joanne Sexton, manager of Tumor Registry/Cancer Data Services at Eden Medical Center and Relay for Life team captain for Heroes Helping Heroes (Eden Medical Center), at 510-727-2718.