It also provides telephone and fax access to national cancer information hotlines. The Center is located on the third floor of Kettering Memorial Hospital outside the 3 South nursing unit. The Makarius Library, located in the 3 South nursing unit at Kettering Memorial Hospital, also offers current information about cancer diagnoses and treatments. The Cindy Wilde Vogel Memorial Library, located in the Lincoln Park office of the Kettering Breast Evaluation Center, offers the latest books, pamphlets and videotapes dealing with cancers or other issues that primarily affect women. Call 299-0099 for more information.
Early detection is the best protection against cancer.
Each year, Kettering Medical Center offers a number of public cancer screenings to help in the fight against cancer. Call the Kettering Physician Referral Service at 296-7899 for information about upcoming cancer screenings. In 1988, Mary Lou Rhea discovered at age 36 that she had breast cancer. The Sycamore Hospital nurse and her husband had just returned from a Caribbean vacation when she found a lump in her left breast up near her shoulder. Tests revealed a mass about the size of a quarter and cancer was diagnosed in the tissue of her breast wall.