Sister to sister fitness Festival

           Actress/Comedian Kym Whitley To Chair
                             Celebrating Life Breast Cancer Awareness Festival
                                                Saturday, October 6, 2018

                                          Sister to Sister Fitness Festival

Actress and comedian Kym Whitley will be the honorary chairperson of the 17th Annual Sister to Sister Fitness Festival that brings awareness to the issues facing women of color who are impacted by breast cancer.

The festival will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, October 6, 2018, at the Alan E. Sims Cedar Hill Recreation Center, 310 E. Parkerville Road, Cedar Hill, Texas.

The festival features a 5K walk/run, onsite mobile mammography unit, cooking demonstrations from chefs Cassondra Armstrong and Tavon Burrows, a Miss Fit and Fabulous Contest, exercise classes and education on breast health.

Both the number of women in the United States acquiring breast cancer and dying from the disease is decreasing. However, women of color, specifically African American women, still are diagnosed after the disease has progressed, which leads to a 46% higher death rate, according to the American Cancer Society and the National Institute of Health. 

The National Institute of Health’s National Cancer Institute surveillance estimates there will 266,120 new female breast cancer cases in 2018 with an estimated 40,920 deaths. The five-year survival rate is now estimated at 87.9 percent. Unfortunately, that trend is not indicated in African American women, who have a mortality rate of 28.7 per 100,000 women, according to research between 2011-2015. The death rate for all races is 20.9 percent per 100,000.

Whitley is most recently known to TV audiences from the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the docuseries “Raising Whitley” on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), which premiered on April 20, 2013, with a total of 1.2 million viewers, making it the fifth most-widely viewed premiere in OWN’s history.
KRNB’s Daytime Radio Diva, Lynn Haze and WFAA’s senior crime and justice reporter Rebecca Lopez are the Fitness Festival hosts.

Program sponsors include Charleston Methodist Hospital, the DeSoto Arts Commission, Chris Howell Communications, the Gourmet Bread Pudding Company, KRNB Radio, A Gift for Moms, and the Alan E. Sims Cedar Hill Recreation Center. 

For information on vendor booths and registration, please visit www.celebratinglife.org.

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