Baton Rouge Komen Affiliate Grants $10,000 to C.A.R.E. Network
Funding helps promote lifesaving message of early detection
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The C.A.R.E. Network has developed an innovative partnership with Woman’s Hospital to decrease breast cancer mortality in Mary Bird Perkins’ 15-parish service area. Since its inception in 2002, this early detection outreach program of free breast cancer screenings for medically underserved women in poorer, more remote locations has screened nearly 6,000 women for breast cancer. Expanded outreach and educational programs, combined with cancer screenings, are needed to increase awareness, motivate behavioral changes, and provide prevention and early detection interventions.
“We are grateful to the Komen organization not only for this grant to our organization but for the pursuit of its own mission to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease by advancing research, education, screening and treatment,” commented Renea Austin-Duffin, executive director, Mary Bird Perkins’ C.A.R.E. Network.
This year, the Baton Rouge Komen Affiliate gave a total of $205,000 to the local community in its fight against breast cancer. Funding was raised through the 2007 Race for the Cure.
Tammy Asmus, MBPCC chief radiation therapist, serves as the Baton Rouge Komen Affiliate President.
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(l to r): Gloria Dorsey, BR Komen Affiliate Grants Chair; Tammy Asmus, BR Komen Affiliate President; Katherine Rose, MBP Senior Development Officer; Amy Benton, MBP Communications Director.