Today’s mission, to screen the women of Lanquin, a small village two hours outside of Coban, Guatemala. This is my second mission with CCC and it has been so different from Vietnam. Most of us speak Spanish, at various levels, but what some lack in vocabulary, they have made up in enthusiasm. This ability to...
This is Rick Siedband. At home, I’m a financial advisor, but I’m spending this week volunteering with the CCC team in Guatamala. Today was our third day here and second day in clinic. We started our work on Monday in Coban with a full day training session. The CCC model is very well thought and...
Today was our first clinic day in the city of Tactic which is a 45 minute drive from Coban. We arrived to a sea of colorful “cortes” which is the Spanish word for skirts here in Guatemala. Over one hundred women were already there waiting for us with warm smiles and a “bueno dias!”, making...
Greetings CCC friends and supporters! Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Caitlin, and I am CCC’s traveling nurse administrator. This is a very exciting time for me, as this is my first mission, and also my first blog for CCC! As you may or may not know, we are currently on a mission...
The CCC team spent the last three days of our program in Lianyungang, located 500km north of Shanghai on the eastern coast of China. At Guan Yun Xian Yang Hospital we had a wonderful meeting with Wu Jie, the only gynecologist at the hospital, who serves a population of over 70,000 people. Wu Jie had...
As I was sitting on a bench outside of the screening and treatment room at the Guan Yun Xian Yang Hospital, a curious little boy was smiling and pointing at me. He was shy and hid behind is father’s leg at first, but when I waved for him to come sit next to me his...
Authored by Jacquelyn Dang, Senior Coordinator Angel’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital Kunming City | May 10, 2015 The immensely warm welcome that the CureCervicalCancer Team received upon setting foot in this private hospital set the tone for the next few days. We were enthusiastically greeted by the hospital’s president, vice president, and head of Gynecology...
Authored by Jacquelyn Dang, CCC Senior Coordinator The CureCervicalCancer Team is currently in China and would like to wish every mother around the world a spectacular Mother’s Day. Ancient Chinese mythology tells of the goddess Nüwa, credited for creating mankind, repairing the sky, and subsequently healing the world. It is said that Nüwa molded figures...
On Friday, May 8, 2015, the CureCervicalCancer team arrived in China with the following goal: to introduce the use of cryotherapy as a treatment option for cervical dysplasia to the local doctors in Guangzhou, Kunming, and Taizhou. Sponsored by MedGyn (the manufacturer of our cryotherapy guns) and the Chinese Ministry of Health, this program is...
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death of women in Ethiopia and it is no coincidence that CureCervicalCancer had the humbling opportunity to help establish 4 new ongoing clinics in the surrounding region of Addis Ababa. CCC seeks to help regions around the world where the prevalence of cervical cancer is high because we...
