Breast Center at Floyd Partners With Medline to Showcase Art Created by Cancer Survivors
Exhibit Runs Throughout Breast Cancer Awareness Month
(firmenpresse) - ROME, GA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/13/11 -- With breast cancer affecting one out of every eight American women, most people know someone who has been touched by this often deadly disease. A new art exhibit at The Breast Center at Floyd in Rome, Ga., gives voice to those whose lives have been touched by women's cancers.
Sponsored by Medline Industries, Inc., the exhibit titled "Voices and Visions, Standing on the Bridge between Health and Disease," will be on display at The Breast Center at Floyd, located at the Harbin Clinic Tony E. Warren, M.D. Cancer Center, 255 W. 5th St., Rome, Ga., from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm weekdays through October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, features more than 27 artists and 45 pieces of art. All the pieces have been produced by artists who have been dramatically affected by women's cancers.
"We are excited to host this special art exhibit right at The Breast Center," said Aimee Griffin, director of The Breast Center at Floyd. "The art and artist testimonials really reflect the feelings many of our patients and their family members are experiencing, and help emphasize our message -- knowledge is power. We hope the community will visit The Breast Center to experience this powerful and moving exhibit."
The exhibit also features statements from women who have undergone breast or ovarian surgeries. Whether elective for prophylactic reasons, or recommended because of a positive diagnosis, women who undergo surgeries experience life changes, both physical and emotional.
"The art exhibit is an extension of our breast cancer awareness campaign with the goal of empowering those who live on that bridge between health and disease," said Sue MacInnes, Medline's chief marketing officer. "Our hope with the art exhibit is to reach people in a creative and interesting way to get them engaged and talking about breast cancer because awareness leads to early detection. And early detection saves lives."
In one way or another, all of the artists have been dramatically affected by women's cancers. Some are survivors; some have had family members with the disease and some are carriers of the BRCA1 gene linked to the development of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. One photographer, for example, had an 18-year-old cancer patient ask him to photograph her. Another male artist took care of his mother through multiple cancers, including ovarian. Several artists have sisters who had cancer, and others had mothers with the disease.
Caren Helene Rudman is an artist who works with mixed media, photography and writing. After learning she carried the BRCA1 gene, a hereditary increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers, her work began to delve into genetics. She has become part of a coalition of women who are passionate about educating people on the risk of hereditary cancers and the power of taking control of our own bodies. Recently, she was invited to participate in a project, Heroes in the Fight Against Breast Cancer, where she and 14 other devoted women were honored by the governor of Illinois. She lives in the Chicago area with her family.
As the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, Medline is focused on helping to improve lives. So it's a natural extension of its corporate mission to help save lives through the early detection of breast cancer (visit for details). Over the past six years, Medline has conducted an awareness campaign and donated more than $800,000 dollars to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to provide education and free mammograms to those in need and continues to make contributions every year.
In addition to sponsoring the "Voices and Visions" art exhibit, Medline created the Pink Glove Dance video, which now has more than 13 million views on YouTube. Due to the popularity of that video, this year Medline is sponsoring a national competition that has inspired more than 135 organizations to make their own videos featuring more than 17,000 people across the country and Canada. Videos can be viewed at . Voting is open to the public and runs through October 21.
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