10/07/2023
🚨💓 BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH🚨💓
For the month of October we have chosen an amazing foundation to donate to: Aurora Health Care’s Team Phoenix! Thank you SO much for the suggestions, this one hits home and is so near and dear to my heart.
💓 $2 per item bought in the month of October will go towards an end of the month donation! 💓
Team Phoenix: Survivorship redefined
Team Phoenix empowers women to become proactive in their own health care and survivorship, move beyond the title of cancer survivor, and redefine themselves as athletes through the introduction to the joys of exercise and living well.
Aurora Healthcare’s information👇🏼
Team Phoenix is an innovative 14-week fitness and research program in which a leadership team of multidisciplinary clinicians, triathlon coaches and volunteers encourage and assist cancer survivors to regain endurance, strength, flexibility, and overall health and wellness after cancer treatment by training for a sprint-distance triathlon. Team Phoenix also collaborates with higher education institutions on research seeking to better understand the effects of group-led, goal-oriented exercise and psychological well-being after cancer treatment.
Team Phoenix began in 2011 as an innovative cancer program based on the multidisciplinary collaborative efforts of Judy A. Tjoe, MD, breast oncology surgeon, and Leslie J. Waltke, DPT, cancer rehabilitation specialist for Aurora Physical Therapy. The program is currently overseen by Team Phoenix Program Director Ilka Hoffins, medical advisors Dr. Waltke and Michael P. Mullane, MD, medical oncologist and hematologist and director of the Hereditary Cancer Prevention and Management Center in Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center’s Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic, with research coordination from Advocate Aurora Research Institute.
Links for more information: https://www.aurorahealthcare.org/services/cancer/cancer-support/team-phoenix
STAY TUNED FOR OUR LAUNCH TONIGHT 👻