Cancer Program: Surviving Fatigue

DANBURY –– “Keys to Survivorship –– Fighting Fatigue” will be addressed at a Cancer Education program on Thursday, November 13, at 2 pm, in the Praxair Conference Room at Danbury Hospital. The program is co-sponsored by the American Cancer Society, Ann’s Place, Home of I can, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, and The Praxair Cancer Center at Danbury Hospital.

Featured speakers will be Patrice Hough, manager of the Praxair Cancer Center; Peggy Gilmore, a holistic practitioner in the hospital’s Complementary Alternative Medicine department, and registered dietitian Vicki Barber, of Food and Nutritional Services. They will present practical information on how to manage cancer fatigue.

For more information about this and other Cancer Education programs offered at the Praxair Cancer Center, call patient care coordinator Joanne Ballerini, at 797-7771, or visit the website at www.danburyhospital.org and click on “Cancer Care.”