You Can Support Breast Cancer Research in Pa.

Pennsylvania taxpayers can donate all or part of their tax refund to cancer research in the Keystone State through a program called Refunds for Research

  The PA Breast Cancer Coalition (PBCC) has an annual program that allows Pennsylvania taxpayers to help support cancer research in the Keystone State. The program is called Refunds for Research. By checking YES on line 35 of the PA 40 tax form, any taxpayer can donate all or part of their state income tax refund to breast and cervical cancer research. Every penny contributed goes directly to PA breast and cervical cancer researchers as they work for a cure. By donating, the taxpayer will join the thousands of Pennsylvania tax filers who have contributed over $2.8 million for Pennsylvania-based cancer research. Recent recipients include doctors at the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University and Penn State. “Pennsylvania …

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Shine a Spotlight on Pa. Breast Cancer Survivors

Pennsylvania's breast cancer survivors are encouraged to share their stories as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Each month, the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition turns the spotlight on a breast cancer survivor living in Pennsylvania and tells her unique story. Throughout October - in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month - the group encourages all breast cancer survivors to share their experience with those around them. The coalition says, "Let the sharing of your story be a release for you; motivate others to get the mammogram they’ve been putting off;  reassure someone in the midst of their breast cancer journey. Add your story and your voice to the collective understanding of what life is like for women with breast cancer." If you’d like to share your story with the PBCC, please email Amy at Amy@PABreastCancer.org. If you are able to tell of your …

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Breast Saved and Cancer Removed in Artful Blend of Treatment

Cancer surgeons and plastic surgeons are working together to help breast cancer patients avoid mastectomies in the Lehigh Valley

  Lehigh Valley Health Network is offering an advancement in breast cancer surgery that is an artful blend of plastic surgery and cancer removal. The procedure - called oncoplasty - allowed Yrene Bodenstein of Lower Macungie Township to avoid a mastectomy when she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer at age 40. With oncoplasty, the surgical oncologist (cancer specialist) and plastic surgeon work together as they consider the extent of cancer surgery needed, the patient’s breast size and shape, and potential reconstruction techniques so the breasts will match.  The advancement reduces down time and emotional turmoil for patients while boosting their confidence, according to LVHN. More information is available in this LVHN article.

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Lehigh Valley Breast Cancer Support Groups

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here's a list of local breast cancer support groups.

One in 8 American women and 1 in 1,000 American men will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people are diagnosed with breast cancer and fight for their lives each year. Breast cancer is difficult to face alone—for both patients and their loved ones. To help in the battle, there are a number of local resources and support groups. Breast Cancer Networking Group Cancer Support Community of Greater Lehigh Valley, Anneliese B. Vollrath House Email: info@CancerSupportGLV.org Phone: (610) 861-7555 Fax: (610) 861-9177 Breast Cancer Survivors Support Group Easton Hospital, Rehabilitation conference room, 2nd floor Phone: 610-250-4027 Saint Luke's Hospital Breast Cancer Support Group St. Luke'…

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Jennifer Rodgers

11:14 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Glad the list helped!!   more ›

Pink T-shirts Raise Nearly $5k for Cancer Research

The money will go directly to St. Luke's Cancer Center at the Anderson Campus toward research for a cure.

What began as a modest campaign to raise cancer awareness by Bethlehem firefighters who wore and sold pink Bethlehem Fire Department t-shirts during Breast Cancer Awareness month this past October has raised nearly $5,000. Firefighter Brian Padilla, who organized the campaign, presented a check for $4,861.50 to Dr. Lee Riley of the St. Luke's Anderson Campus cancer center at a press event at the South Side station house Thursday afternoon. While not yet specifically earmarked, firefighter and local union president David Saltzer and Riley both indicated the money would likely go directly to support Riley's research into genome-tailored vaccine therapy for melanoma and breast cancer. “(Padilla) is very adamant that it get used in the best …

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Bethlehem Firefighters are in Pink for October

T-shirts are sanctioned uniform option for Breast Cancer Awareness Month; sales will raise money for St. Luke's Cancer Research Center.

If you drove past a Bethlehem fire station in the past week, you might have done a double take for what you thought you might have seen. Yes. The firefighters are wearing pink t-shirts. All through the month of October – in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month – city firefighters have been given permission to wear the pink as an official uniform option. And you can dress like a Bethlehem firefighter too. The shirts are for sale for $10 ($12 for sizes XX-Large and bigger) at a number of locations in and near the city, including the gift shop at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fountain Hill. The shirts feature the same lettering and logos as the standard issue navy t-shirts city firefighters typically wear, except they are pink and feature a …

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