FEATURED IN FEBRUARY 2024

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS -REGISTER TO HOST A SCREENING

For more than two decades, HNCA has worked with partners around the world to raise awareness and save lives by hosting community health screenings to promote early detection.

If you're a healthcare professional, we invite you to sign up to host a community screening event.  Let's partner together and spread awareness!  We make it easy for your organization to participate by providing promotional and educational materials free of charge, and you organize the staff and volunteers.  

We also welcome registrations for head and neck cancer screenings throughout the year - your event does not have to be during Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month.  We'll still provide the promotional kits for your event.  Just fill out the form below!

ARE YOU READY TO GET MOVING?

The Move-A-Thon is our annual fundraising event held in April. We invite you to sign up and join us by moving your way according to your interests and ability (you decide - it could be running, walking, playing with your kids - whatever you feel capable of doing).  

Then, during Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, join us in moving and raising funds and awareness.  You can do this by sharing social media posts, asking friends and family to make donations, or by sending a press release to your local news outlets.

You can join the Move-A-Thon as an individual, start a team, or join an existing team! We are currently offering a chance to win a $50 gift card to any person that starts a team (by the end of February), and recruits four other people to the team.

We have much more in store for the Move-A-Thon including t-shirts for sale, incentive gifts for meeting fundraising thresholds, social media kits and more!

MEET OUR AMBASSADORS:
JESSICA DAGLEY
Greenwood, Indiana
Survivor of Salivary Duct Carcinoma

In the summer of 2019, Jessica was feeling “off” and went to her doctor.  After a variety of tests, her life changed when she was diagnosed with Stage 3b Salivary Duct Carcinoma, a rare and aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis. It usually affects older men. Jessica was 39 with kids ages: 11, 9 and 5. 

Surgery was quickly scheduled to remove the tumor and the affected 15 lymph nodes. Since the cancer is rare, there was no clear-cut treatment plan. 

After consulting with doctors, Jessica’s treatment plan was radiation five days a week for 32 treatments and chemotherapy once a week for 18 weeks. Afterward, she was prescribed Herceptin, a drug generally used for breast cancer patients, for a year. 

Radiation and chemotherapy quickly took their toll, especially in her mouth and throat. 

Approximately a year later, Jessica underwent another a scan, her doctor, Michael Moore, MD, IU Health noticed something on her lower jawbone. After a needle and open biopsy, it was determined that it was not cancer, but osteoradionecrosis. This is damaged, dying bone that can result from radiation. This was good news to Jessica as no further radiation or chemotherapy treatment was needed. 

After her cancer and dental challenges, Jessica is thrilled to share that she is doing well and cancer free!

HPV VACCINATION NEWS

"An exciting new study from Public Health Scotland (PHS), in collaboration with the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh, shows that no cervical cancer cases have been detected in fully vaccinated women following the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation at age 12-13 since the programme started in Scotland in 2008.

The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute today, concludes that the HPV vaccine is highly effective in preventing the development of cervical cancer."