“Silver Linings,” the educational forum and homecoming for breast cancer survivors, and the people who care about them, that’s staged by the ICanServe Foundation, will be held on Sept. 17, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., at the Grand Regal Hotel in Davao City.

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte and Dawn Zulueta, supporter of ICanServe’s barangay-based breast-cancer screening program, will lead the opening ceremonies.

Held every three years around the country, Silver Linings is the only national forum of its kind that empowers cancer survivors, their family and friends, the medical community, and the general public with information on breast cancer, as well as a circle of support.

ICanServe celebrity volunteers will moderate and speak at the breakout sessions. Karen Davila, Maritoni Fernandez, Bibeth Orteza, Melissa de Leon, Patty Betita, Twink Macaraig, Chiqui Roa and Jim Paredes have confirmed their participation.

Musical numbers will feature Bituin Escalante, Chad Borja and the Sinagtala Dance Company.

The forum offers a wide range of topics from experts like Breast Cancer 101, Managing the Side Effects of Cancer Treatment, Exercise and Eating Right, Cancer Causing Foods, Living with a Recurrence, Role of Family and Friends, How Husbands Cope, Grief, Looking Good During Cancer, Breast Cancer in the Young, Keeping Healthy When in Remission.

Registration fee is P100 to include all meals and access to a free breast clinic. First come, first served.

For pre-registration, visit www.icanservefoundation. org or get registration forms from Davao City at the Grand Regal Hotel front desk, Ristorante Spirale at the Damosa Business Center in Lanang, Buona Terra Deli and Creperie at F. Torres, Blugre Coffee at Landco, SM City and MTS.

Forms are also available at General Santos City through Blugré Coffee at Robinsons and Pacquiao Building Osmena.

The nationwide forum is made possible by Evolife, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Astra Zeneca, C-Network, Innovitelle, Pagcor, GSIS, Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority, Blugré Coffee and Ristorante Spirale.

Silver Linings is in cooperation with Davao partners: Smiles, Living Hope, Amuma, the Davao Associations for Cancer Awareness Inc. and the Department of Surgery of Davao Doctors Hospital.

Call 6382-2214667 (Davao), 6365578 (Manila), or 6332- 2539159 (Cebu); e-mail [email protected]

The ICanServe Foundation is an advocacy group of breast cancer survivors that provides early breast cancer detection through its community-based cancer screening programs and through high-impact information campaigns.