Dance Your Way to Health brings together a cardio dance class, breast health education, and the chance to ask breast specialists your questions — open to everyone, with no dance experience required.
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Presented by Breastlink and RadNet
The Program
Come for the dance, stay for the knowledge.
Every Dance Your Way to Health event follows the same simple idea: make movement feel good, make breast health easy to ask about, and put both in the same room.
Free cardio dance
An invigorating Zumba session led by a professional instructor. All levels, no experience needed.
Breast health talks
Short, plain-language sessions on understanding your risk and how screening works.
Ask a specialist
A panel of physicians and support staff, who stay afterwards for your questions.
Lunch and company
Lunch is provided, and there is real time to sit and talk with survivors, caregivers and staff.
What To Expect
A typical morning
Events run about three and a half hours on a Saturday morning — a dance session to start, then talks, lunch, and time with your care team.
Registration and arrival
Check in, find a spot, meet the team.
Dance Your Way to Health
A Zumba session to start the morning — at your own pace.
Breast health updates
Physicians and support staff share updates and take questions.
Eat and mingle
Lunch is provided, with time to talk with your care team.
Exact times and speakers vary by event. See the event listing above for specifics.
Upcoming
Two dates this autumn
Both events are free, but space is limited and they have filled up before. RSVP early.
Saturday
October 10
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location
Breastlink Tarzana
18133 Ventura Blvd, Suite 200
Tarzana, CA 91356
The morning
Registration opens at 9:00, followed by a Zumba session from 9:30 to 10:00 — an energetic way to start the day. From 10:00 to 12:30 there’s a panel discussion with physicians and support staff, lunch, and time to talk with your care team.
Guest Speakers
Jason McKellop, MD
Medical Director and Radiologist, Breastlink
Lauren DeStefano, MD
Surgical Oncologist, Cedars-Sinai
Both will share updates on breast health.
Free to attend. Lunch provided. Space is limited.
Saturday
November 14
Times to be announced
Location
Breastlink Rolling Oaks
225 W Hillcrest Drive, Suite 100
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
The morning
The same format as Tarzana — a dance session to start, then breast health updates from our physicians, lunch, and time to talk with your care team. Full timings and speakers will be posted here shortly.
Free to attend. Lunch provided. Space is limited.
Bring someone
Most people come with a friend, a sister, a daughter, or a colleague. You’re welcome to bring whoever you’d like — just include them in your RSVP so we plan enough lunch.
What to bring
Comfortable clothes you can move in, supportive shoes, and a water bottle. That’s it — no dance experience needed.
Who Should Attend
Everyone is welcome
This event is open to everyone — patients, survivors, healthcare providers, caregivers, and anyone interested in health and wellness.
- No dance experience required
- No cost, and lunch is included
- You don’t need to be a Breastlink patient
- Move at your own pace — sit out whenever you want
If you’re in active treatment, recovering from surgery, or living with a condition that affects how you move, you’re still welcome. Please check with your care team first, and let us know at check-in so we can help you take part comfortably.
How It Started
One survivor’s idea
Dance Your Way to Health was created by Lousine Adjemian, RadNet’s Director of Mammography Training in the West and a two-time breast cancer survivor.
Her own cancer was found through a screening mammogram at 41. That experience turned her into an advocate for early detection, and gave her the idea for an event that didn’t feel like a clinic: put on music, get people moving, and make it easy to ask a radiologist or a breast surgeon the question you’ve been sitting on.
She built it with the Breastlink team, and it has been growing across Southern California ever since.
Come for the dance, stay for the knowledge. Let’s move together towards a healthier future.
Why Movement
Why we start with dancing
Being active is one of the few things within your control that is consistently linked to lower breast cancer risk.
Lower risk
Across 38 studies, the most active women had a 12–21% lower risk of breast cancer than the least active.
Per week
National guidelines suggest 150–300 minutes of moderate activity a week, plus strength work twice.
To get started
Our Zumba session is 30 minutes of exactly that — set to music, in good company, with nobody keeping score.
One morning of dancing is a starting point, not a treatment plan. The research above is about being active regularly over time — it doesn’t show that attending a single event changes anyone’s risk of breast cancer. For people who have been treated for cancer, regular exercise is also linked to less fatigue and anxiety and better quality of life. Talk to your own care team about what’s right for you.
The Story So Far
Where we’ve danced
What started as one idea in Tarzana has become a recurring event, and the room keeps filling up.
Everyone who showed up
The last thing that happens is the group photo. It gets bigger every time.
The dance floor
No mirrors, no choreography to memorise, and nobody keeping score.
“I dance for…”
Everyone fills in a heart when they arrive. They’re worth reading.
Questions
Before you come
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No. The class is built for all levels and most people in the room have never taken a dance class. The instructor demonstrates everything, and nobody is watching you.
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Come as you are. You can march in place, take a song off, or sit down for a stretch at any point — people do, and it’s completely normal. Bring water and wear comfortable shoes.
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You’re very welcome. Please check with your own care team first about what activity is right for you, and tell us at check-in so we can help you take part comfortably. You’re also welcome to come just for the talks and lunch.
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Yes — the class, the talks, and lunch are all free. We ask you to RSVP because space is limited and events have filled up.
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Not at all. The event is open to everyone — patients, survivors, healthcare providers, caregivers, and anyone interested in health and wellness.
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Please do. Most people come with a friend or family member. Just include them in your RSVP so we plan enough lunch.
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No — this is an education and community event, not a screening clinic. But the specialists there can answer your questions, and our team can help you book an appointment if you’d like one.
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Comfortable clothes you can move in, supportive shoes, and a water bottle. That’s it.
Let’s move together towards a healthier future.
Bring your energy and enthusiasm. We’ll bring the music, the lunch, and the people who can answer your questions.
RSVP
Free to attend. Lunch provided. Space is limited.
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