Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

  • Home
  • Employment
  • About Us
  • Find a Doctor
  • Services
  • For Patients & Visitors
  • Health Information
  • Ways to Give
  • Quality

Services

  • Community Services
    • Markstein Cancer Education and Prevention Services
      • Our Location
      • Screening and Early Detection
      • Prostate Cancer Research Project
      • Resource Center
      • Complementary Therapy, Education
        & Support
      • Upcoming Events
      • What Our Patients and Staff Say

Health Events

  • Decrease Font Size
  • Increase Font Size
  • Send to a Friend
  • Share
    • Digg This
    • del.icio.us
    • Newsvine
    • Facebook
    • Reddit
    • Furl It
    • !Y My Web
    • Google
  • Print

Markstein Cancer Education and Prevention Services offers several events each year and on an ongoing basis. Below is a brief list of some of those cancer-related programs.


Ongoing & Monthly Events

  • Ongoing: Cancer Support Groups
  • Monthly: "Transitions"
  • Monthly: "Cancer in Other Words" Writing Workshop
  • Monthly: "Diet & Prostate Cancer in African American Men" research program screenings
  • Monthly: "Nourishing the Mind-Body Connection for Better Health": A series of four workshops for cancer survivors and their caretakers to learn an array of mind-body practices to soothe the physical being and emotional soul.

Spring Events

  • Bay Area Cancer Forums
  • Early spring - Prostate cancer screening
  • Late spring - Skin cancer screening

Summer Events

  • Skin cancer screenings

Fall Events

  • September: Two-day free prostate cancer screening for Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
  • November: Free prostate cancer screening
  • Bay Area Cancer Forums
  • Educational Forum on Lung Cancer

Winter Events

  • Bay Area Cancer Forums


For more information about the locations, dates and times of these events, please contact Markstein Cancer Education & Prevention Services at (510) 869-8833.
Arabic Proverb: He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.

Oncology Services:

arrow Oncology Center of Excellence

arrow Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center

arrow Comprehensive Cancer Center: Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy

arrow Markstein Cancer Education & Prevention Services

arrow Blood and Marrow Transplant Program

arrow Brachytherapy Department

arrow Radiation Therapy Services Department
  • About Our Sutter Health Network
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility
  • Site Map

2010 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. All rights reserved.