UCSD Community Wide 

Cancer

African-American Cosmetologists Promoting Health
UCSD Cancer Center
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0658
Contact: Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor,
UCSD Cancer Center
(858) 534-7611 gsadler@ucsd.edu

The African-American Cosmetologists Promoting Health program promotes breast health and breast cancer prevention education to the African-American community through beauty salons. African-American cosmetologists who are trained in early detection and prevention of breast cancer and diabetes, educate clients in a comfortable way about the risks of developing breast cancer.

Breast Health Reminder Service 
Internet
La Jolla, CA 92093
Contact: Anne Wallace, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor,
Department of Surgery
(858) 534-7600 http://cancer.ucsd.edu

Sponsored by the UCSD Cancer Center, this is a web-based service which reminds women by e-mail when it is time to do their monthly breast self-exam and when to schedule their annual clinical breast exam and mammogram. This is a free community service available to anyone with an e-mail address. To register for the service, visit the UCSD Cancer Center web site at http://cancer.ucsd.edu and click on the link to the Breast Cancer Reminder Service. The registration page asks visitors to register for the monthly or annual reminder, or both. Visitors then designate the date each month and/or the month each year they wish to receive their e-mail reminder, enter their mail address and click the submit button.

Clergy Cancer Education Program
UCSD Cancer Center
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0658
Contact: Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor,
UCSD Cancer Center
(858) 534-7611 gsadler@ucsd.edu

The Clergy Cancer Education Program collaborates with churches to promote awareness and better understanding of three main cancer issues: (1) cancer prevention, (2) clinical trials opportunities, and (3) pain management and palliative care options. The program currently involves clergy and lay church leaders from twenty-four churches in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

Community Breast Cancer Screening
402 Dickinson Street, L-030
San Diego, CA 92103-0809
Contact: Sheila Pickwell, Ph.D., CFNP, Clinical Professor, Department of Family &
Preventive Medicine
(619) 543-5480 spickwell@ucsd.edu

UCSD Nurse Practitioner faculty members provide breast screening services to low income and inadequately insured women through the California Breast Cancer Early Detection Program. Screenings are performed at the workplace and in conjunction with mobile mammography.

Community Oncologists’ Clinical Trials Education Program
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0658
Contact: Georgia Sadler, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor,
UCSD Cancer Center
(858) 534-7611 gsadler@ucsd.edu

This program focuses on clinical trials for patients with special emphasis placed on educating minority patients.

Developing Strategies to Reach the Deaf Community with Health Information
Deaf Community Services of San Diego
3788 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor,
UCSD Cancer Center
(858) 534-7611 gsadler@ucsd.edu

In cooperation with Deaf Community Services of San Diego, this program improves access to health care and raises the level of cancer education in the deaf community. The program also includes a train-the-trainer education program to implement health intervention strategies via grassroots transmission of information about both men’s and women’s gender-linked cancers.

Pacific Asian Grocery Store Cancer Education
UCSD Cancer Center
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0658
Contact: Georgia Robins Sadler, Ph.D., Associate Clinical Professor,
UCSD Cancer Center
(858) 534-7611 gsadler@ucsd.edu

Pacific-Asian Grocery Store Cancer Education is a demonstration project using Asian grocery stores to disseminate information about cancer prevention, early detection, and clinical trials to Asian and Pacific Islander communities in San Diego. Staff is composed of a variety of bicultural and bilingual UCSD undergraduates trained to work as community health educators.

Por la Vida
c/o of Sherman Heights Community Center
2260 Island Ave.
San Diego, CA 92102
Contact: Ana Navarro, M.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor,
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
(858) 534-3415 anavarro@ucsd.edu

Por la Vida is a public health intervention program implemented in Latino communities. Hosted by the Sherman Heights Community Center, this outreach project educates underserved members of the Hispanic community about early detection and prevention of cervical and breast cancers. Materials are bilingual, Spanish/English, and the curricula is based on empowerment strategies and social learning theory principles. A new component of the project includes nutritional education. The project was started in the early 1990s by UCSD Community Pediatrics and has been disseminated by Family and Preventive Medicine and San Diego State University. Outreach sites include southeast San Diego and San Marcos.

San Marcos Clinic
150 Valpreda, Suite 104
San Marcos, CA 92069

Smokers Helpline
UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
8950 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 101
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact: Shu-Hong Zhu, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor
szhu@ucsd.edu

Phone Numbers:
1-800-NO-BUTTS (English) 1-800-45-NO-FUME (Spanish)
1-800-400-0866 (Chinese) 1-800-778-8440 (Vietnamese)
1-800-556-5564 (Korean) 1-800-933-2TDD (Hearing Impaired)
1-800-844-Chew (Tobacco Chewers’ Helpline)

The California Smokers’ Helpline, is a telephone program to help people quit smoking. Services available to help people quit smoking include self-help materials, a referral list of local area programs, and one-on-one counseling over the phone in English, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Vietnamese, Korean, and TDD/TTY for the hearing impaired. Specialized services for pregnant women, teens, and those wanting to quit chewing tobacco are also available. Services are free and funded by the California Department of Health. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 A.M.– 9 P.M., Saturday 9 A.M.–1 P.M. Voicemail is available twenty-four hours a day.

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