October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — the perfect time to give blood or platelets to support cancer patients and others
The Times
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month — the perfect time to give blood or platelets to support cancer patients and others. Cancer patients may need red blood cell or platelet transfusions during chemotherapy, surgery or treatment for complications.
Make an appointment to donate blood by downloading the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org or calling 1–800-RED CROSS. As a thank-you, those who come to donate blood or platelets in October will be automatically entered to win one of five $500 gift cards redeemable at hundreds of merchants. Learn more at RedCrossBlood.org/GoForGoal.
Upcoming donation opportunities include the following:
— Oct. 20 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Scottsville United Methodist Church, 2400 Brownsville Road in Langhorne
— Oct. 22 from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. at St. Frances Cabrini Church, Monsignor Woods Hall, 325 S. Oxford Valley Road in Fairless Hills
— Oct. 23 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Rothman Orthopedic Speciality Hospital, 3300 Tillman Drive in Bensalem
— Oct. 25 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Ramada Inn, 3201 Bristol Pike in Levittown
— Oct. 25 from 2 to 7 p.m. at Best Western, 3499 Street Road in Bensalem
— Oct. 26 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Maple Point Middle School, 2250 Langhorne-Yardley Road in Langhorne
— Oct. 31 from 2 to 7 p.m. at St. Ephrem’s School, 5340 Hulmeville Road in Bensalem
