CAaCare Volunteers pictured left to right
are Mr*. Margaretta Young, Dr. Anne
Tnraage, Mrs. Maggie Freeman and
Mr*. Grace Blackmon. According to Dr.
Turnage, all have had a cancer experi
ence. (Photo By Teresa Simmoni)
Three-Year Pilot Program
Xo Benefit Cancer Patients
By Lori Grier
Poet Staff Writer
Anne Shaw Turnage
wa* a 1978 founder and
original coordinator of
CANSURMOUNT, a Rich
mond, Va., program of
over 75 years previous
cancer patient volunteers
offering friendship and en
couragement to newly
—diagnosed cancer patients
and their families. In re
cognition of her work, she
received both a Jefferson
Award for outstanding pu
blic service and a special
citation from the Virginia
Division of the American
Cancer Society.
In I960, Turnage helped
establish the Charlotte
American Cancer Society
Program, I CAN COPE, a
patient education program
now in its third year. She
received the ACS Service
and Rehabilitation Award
in recognition of this wnrir
She has served on the
ACS Service and Rehabi
litation Committees in both
North Carolina and Vir
ginia and has co-authored
with husband Mac Turnage
a number of books for both
youth and adults on a wide
range of Christian-related
Hian You Dare To Ask*
The First Year of Living
With Cancer," published
by John Knox Press in 1975,
tells of the initial stages of
the cancer experience.
In January, 1984, CAn
Care (formerly CANcer
■CARE) was established in .
Chfldotte with the assist
ancv*>f Dr. Turnage and 34
volunteers. It is a min
istry made possible by five
local churches- Christ
Church Episcopal, Coven
ant Presbyterian, Myers
Park Baptist, Myers Park
Presbyterian and Myers
Park United Methodist. It
—to a network of volunteers
established to improve the
quality of life for cancer
patients and their fami
lies.
“It’s a three-year pilot
program, and we want to
see if it will benefit can
cer patients in this com
munity. After three years,
we’ll see if we can keep it
part of the churchef, move
it to a community base and
be free standing like Hos
pice or make it all volun
teer and give it to the
Cancer Society,” informed
Dr. Turnage, coordinator
who will be compensated
as a half-time staff employ
ee with the balance of her
time contributed as a vo
lunteer.
She has such a keen
interest in cancer, because
she to also a cancer pa
tient who went through
canter surgery (of the
colon with metastasis to
the liver) 11 years ago.
“First, I didn’t believe I
haddancer, because I felt it
only happened to someone
else. It’s a very devastat
ing feeling to go through,
but my husband supports
me, and I have made a
good situation out of a bad
one,” told Turaage.
When she first became a
cancer volunteer in Rich
mond, she discovered that
she was “reaching out to so
many people with cancer.
A lot of people who have
cancer want to make life
better for other cancer
patients and improve the
quality of life for cancer
patients and their fami
lies."
According to Tumage,
there are 150 different
types of cancer, nine
known causes but where
cancer originated still re
mains a mystery. "When I
started out with cancer one
out of three people lived out
a normal life time. Today,
one half of the people will
live out a normal life time.”
She also added that more
blacks than whites, in
Mecklenburg County have
cancer, but she doesn't
know the reasons.
“We found a lot of peo
ple with cancer,” she con
tinued, afraid to tell how
"They feel Inside^ Less
than five percent of all who
have cancer ask for help.
We're convinced- that—if
they get help, they can
have a better life.”
C An Care differs from
other cancer organizations
in that their services are
free; they are ordinary
people who work one to one
with all cancer patients;
their own volunteers are
trained and stay with
cancer patients over the
long haul, and the volun
teers are happy people who
make the best of the time
they have.
“From the very begin
ning, we have gotten old,
young, men, women,
blacks and whites to be
volunteers. All volunteers
have had cancer, and many
still receive treatment,”
stated Turnage, who re
ceives chemotherapy twice
a week. She mentioned that
she • experiences no side
effects from chemothera
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In 1962, Dr. Anne Turn
age received an Honorary
Doctorate degree in Hu
mane Letters from Queens
College. She and Mac,
pastor of Covenant Pres
byterian Church, are the
parents of Shaw, 19; Neil,
26 and Lynn, 28. She has
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and First Union Presby
terian Churches in Char
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rian students at the Uni
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The CAnCare Board con
sists of Rev. Margaret B.
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ces W. Dulin; Mary Jo S.
Gilmer; Herman A. God
win, Jr., M.D.; Thomas W.
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Jack M. Knight; J. Phil
lip Olmert, Jr., M.D.;
George S. Sinnicks; Velva
■ W. Woollen and Dr. Anne S.—
Turnage, coordinator.
“Cancer is the greatest
blow to the psyche. Once
the person finds out, he or
she becomes depressed or
worried. We want to take
away fear, dispel the
myths of cancer (it’s
catchy or you shouldn’t
touch or eat with a cancer
patient) and let them
know that you can live with
cancer,1' confirmed Turn-—
age.
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