Oklahoma Area Health Education Center at Okla-homa State University and Rural Health Projects NwAHEC will conduct a free cancer survivorship education session in Enid noon to 2 p.m. June 21 at Senior Life Network’s activity room in Oakwood Mall, 4125 W. Garriott.

This is the first of several two-hour cancer survivorship education sessions planned throughout rural Oklahoma for the next three years. The sessions are based on a program created by Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Sessions provide information and resources for people who have been diagnosed with cancer as well as their friends, family members and others im-pacted.

“Many people when they are diagnosed with cancer naturally begin to have questions, including how the cancer will impact their health, how to find the best treatments, how to explain the disease to their children, what financial preparations should be made and ways to deal with the many emotions that naturally surface,” said Toni Hart, program coordinator.

The sessions focus on three primary questions people affected by cancer should ask their physicians: What is my main problem? What do I need to do? and Why is it important for me to do this?.

The sessions not only provide helpful information and resources but provide a system for recording information and keeping everything organized.

Partnering with Oklaho-ma Area Health Education Center to make these sessions possible are cancer survivors in Oklahoma, Oklahoma Comprehensive Cancer Net-work, Cherokee Nation, Integris, National Cancer Institute, Information Serv-ices, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, OU Can-cer Center and OSU Center for Rural Health.

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