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Team Shan Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Tuesday, 20 October 2015 16:11

A group will assemble this evening at Montana's in Woodstock to acknowledge the 5th anniversary of when Team Shan became a registered charity

WOODSTOCK - Team Shan is celebrating their fifth anniversary of becoming a registered charity tonight at Montana's in Woodstock. 

10 percent of the proceeds from 5 pm until 8 pm will go towards the breast cancer charity and they will have donation bins set up as well. Lorna Larsen tells Heart FM they started the charity to encourage young woman to check themselves for breast cancer after her daughter Shanna or Shan passed away from the disease. 

"She was actually misdiagnosed and diagnosed late with metastatic breast cancer, because it just wasn't on the radar for the physicians and her symptoms were misdiagnosed for months and unfortunately then by the time she was diagnosed it had spread to her bones and to her liver." 

Larsen says the event tonight will features some of the work they are doing in October which they are calling Breast Cancer Action Month. 

"Our new messaging that we have been promoting over the month and that is the checkem message so that young women know their bodies, know their breasts and that they check them regularly, and so we actually have some new marketing out there, we have a new billboard on Mill Street, here in Woodstock and we have been promoting on social media." 

Larsen says as part of their checkem campaign, they have produced a video called check yourself and they have reached 37,000 views on Facebook. 

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