The next meeting of the “Living with Cancer” Support Group will be held on Thursday, March 3rd from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. The meeting will take place at Wayne HealthCare in the 3rd Floor Conference room. This month’s support group features Registered Dietician, Carolyn Doenges, MS RD LD who will be presenting “Healthy Eating and the Cancer Survivor.” She plans to cover topics including diet as it is related to cancer prevention, overall healthy eating, tips for eating out and the importance of portion control and sizes.
Registered Dietitian, Carolyn Doenges, MS RD LD, is originally from Fort Recovery, Ohio. After graduation, she attended The Ohio State University and received a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Human Nutrition and Food management. She went on to complete the required Dietetic Internship along with obtaining a Masters of Science Degree in Medical Dietetics also at Ohio State. She began her career in Dietetics working primarily with chronic kidney disease while working at a kidney dialysis center as a Renal Dietitian. Since then she has been working at Wayne Healthcare for the last 3 ½ years as the Clinical Dietitian. Here, Carolyn enjoys having the opportunity to work with all aspects of nutritional care while covering the hospital inpatient needs, as well as providing medical nutritional therapy on an outpatient basis for people who require more in-depth counseling including various topics such as weight loss, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, low fat, low sodium or cardiac diet.
Your local and independent Cancer Association of Darke County sponsors the “Living with Cancer” group in cooperation with Wayne HealthCare. The Support Group is open to anyone that has been diagnosed with cancer; the family and friends of an individual with cancer are encouraged to attend the group as well. Facilitating the support group meetings will be Warren Richards from the Cancer Association, Kay Kirby, Jill Brown, and Vicky Henderson from Wayne Hospital, and Pam Spitler from Breast Cancer Awareness of Darke County.
For further information, contact the Cancer Association of Darke County office at 937-548-9960. Office hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00 A.M. to Noon and 1:00 to 4:30 P.M.
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