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  Jim Hoyle chose to see his wife, Evelyn’s, death from cancer as an inspiration. And to honor her memory, he’s made it his mission to help bring awareness to the disease she battled for four months.

    Hoyle approached Rutherford Regional’s Cancer Resource Center Cancer Outreach Program Manager Jamie Ingraham about creating and placing posters with information on symptoms and screening guidelines for common cancers.

    Evelyn, Hoyle said, had some signs of the colon cancer that took her life, but wasn’t aware her symptoms could be cancer. By the time she was diagnosed, it was too late.

    “Her death is why this is so important to me,” he said.

    Not only did he have wall posters created, but also smaller, flyer-sized guidelines that Ingraham has used to distribute at community events as well as at the Center.

    “I ask folks to take it with them to their doctors to open up the conversation with their physician on being screened,” Ingraham said.

    In addition to the poster, Hoyle has also secured two URLs  – mycancerscreening.com and mycancerscreening.org. The site will include a PDF of the poster as well as other information on cancer, he said.

    Hoyle has help in distributing posters to physician’s offices, senior centers – “There’s even one in senior centers in Conway and Myrtle Beach,” he said – and other locations.

    “If they have an M.D. after their name, they’re getting a poster,” said Lucy Daniel, a 20-year cancer survivor.

    Daniel was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991. Her husband, Glenn, also was diagnosed with colon cancer.

    Glenn was always the type to pitch in in the community, raising money for cancer research. Daniel said it was her husband’s zeal for helping others that inspired her to help bring awareness to cancer.

    “The Lord has blessed me. I’m just glad for whatever I can do,” she said.

Daniel said she believed the awareness the posters bring would help those who might face a diagnosis of cancer. Ingraham agreed.

    “When found early, colon cancer is one of the most treatable cancers there is,” she said.

    Having volunteers help spread the word about cancer screenings and signs to look for makes the job of those at the Cancer Resource Center easier, Ingraham said.

    “We just couldn’t do it without the people who step up,” she said. “It’s people we haven’t recruited, but those who’ve come and said ‘I want to do this.’

    “The time they give us is priceless.”  

    For more information on cancer, treatments and services in Rutherford County, call Rutherford Regional’s Cancer Resource Center at 828-245-4596 or online at www.MyRutherfordRegional.com/cancer.
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