FOR HEALTHIER WOMEN GRANT TO FIGHT BREAST CANCER.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- A $250,000 grant from the Avon Foundation will pay for expanding educational seminars and breast cancer screenings This article or section recently underwent a major revision or rewrite and needs further review. You can help! X-ray mammography Mammography is still the modality of choice for screening of early breast cancer, since it is relatively fast, reasonably accurate, and in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . Announced at the recent Avon Walk for Breast Cancer The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer is a fundraising effort to support the Avon Foundation in researching a cure for breast cancer. Participants are required to raise a minimum of $1800 for the cause and over the course of two days walk either 26.2 or 39.3 miles. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. in Long Beach, the grant goes to Antelope Valley Hospital and Care-A-Van Mobile Clinic, a program of Partners In Care, to implement the Antelope Valley Breast Cancer Resource Network to reach and educate more ``medically underserved'' women. ``All women over 40 and women with high risk factors for breast cancer should be screened regularly as part of their personal health protection,'' says Dr. Jennifer Hill, medical director of the Antelope Valley Outpatient outpatient /out·pa·tient/ (-pa-shent) a patient who comes to the hospital, clinic, or dispensary for diagnosis and/or treatment but does not occupy a bed. out·pa·tient n. Imaging Center. ``Now, those women who have been doing without care have the way to learn about breast cancer and detection and to have their screenings done.'' Through the Antelope Valley Breast Cancer Resource Network, 500 to 600 women will obtain free breast cancer education sessions and participating clinics will perform 1,200 mammograms. The AVON Foundation grant extends the current program through 2008 and will enable organizers to care for women who have never had an exam and to recall others for annual checks. ``Learning about home self-exams, clinical exams, and mammograms is the best early detection. The earlier a suspicious lump is identified, the greater the survival rate is. There are many more women in Antelope Valley who need to become aware of what they can do to protect themselves,'' Hill said. Medical and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services include American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, , Antelope Valley Hospital, Antelope Valley Outpatient Imaging Center, Antelope Valley Cancer Center/City of Hope and Care-A-Van Mobile Health Clinic. The Avon Foundation was founded in 1955 to improve the lives of women and their families. The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade launched in 1992. To learn more about Antelope Valley Breast Cancer Resource Network seminars and to make an appointment for the exam, contact director Maria S. Altamirano at (661) 942-2391, Ext. 308. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Holding a giant check representing the Avon Foundation's $250,000 donation toward an Antelope Valley breast cancer campaign Breast Cancer Campaign is the only charity that specialises in funding independent breast cancer research throughout the UK. It aims to find the cure for breast cancer by funding research which looks at improving diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, better understanding how it are, from left, Carolyn Ricci, coordinator of the Avon Foundation breast cancer program; Maria S. Altamirano, director of the Antelope Valley Breast Cancer Resource Network; Jackie Weder, Antelope Valley Hospital director of marketing, and Marc Hurlbert, senior consultant for grants and partnerships for the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade. |
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