Huntsman Cancer Institute Cancer Prevention Classes: Lowering Your Risk of Cancer Through Prevention Behaviors and Screenings

Join us for a series of 1-hour Cancer prevention classes in partnership with the Huntsman Cancer Institute! The 1st class will be on October 28 at 7:30 PM in Logan Library's Community Room A and will be about how to lower your risk of cancer through specific healthy behaviors and timely screenings. This class will include a 30-minute presentation, a Jeopardy-style game about cancer prevention, and time at the end to ask any questions and gather materials about prevention, screenings, and community resources. The 2nd class will be on November 4 at 7:30 PM in Logan Library's Community Room B and will focus on the importance of practicing sun safety, especially here in Northern Utah, and how to lower your risk of skin cancer. Individuals in Northern Utah face a unique risk of skin cancer due to several factors, but there is a lot that can be done to lower your risk of this type of cancer through prevention behaviors and screenings. This class will include a 30-minute presentation on these risk factors and how to reduce them, an engaging myth-vs.-fact game for the group to play together, and time at the end to ask questions and gather materials on prevention, screenings, and community resources. The last class will be on November 18 at 7:30 PM in Logan Library's Community Room B and will be about the importance of breast cancer awareness, prevention behaviors, and screenings such as mammograms. This class will include a 30-minute presentation on the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, prevention behaviors, and screening guidelines, followed by an interactive trivia game for the group, and time at the end to ask questions and gather resources on prevention, screenings, and community resources. This class will include information about how to find access to mammograms and other important screenings.