Did you know that uninsured women are 41 percent more likely to receive a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis and are, therefore, three times more likely to die from the disease than are women with insurance? The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides low-income, uninsured, and underserved women with breast cancer screening, outreach and case management services, and much more. As of now, the program has served over 2.9 million women and provided more than 6.9 million screening examinations. Through the NBCCEDP, more than 26,000 cases of breast cancer have been diagnosed.
Last year, affiliates for Komen for the Cure provided more than $58 million in resources for screening, education, outreach, case management and treatment services in communities around the country. They also used that money to help secure an additional $10 million in state funding.
Please help me do my part to help Komen support this and many of the other programs for women and men touched by breast cancer! And maybe there’ll be a little something extra in it for you. 
If you donate $10 (US) or more, I’ll send you one of these bookmarks, made by me. I am not a beader, but I’m pretty darn proud of the way they turned out. Each one has a ribbon-shaped charm, hanging from a wire-strung chain of Swarovski crystal beads. You’ll need to email me your mailing address after pledging; the Komen site doesn’t request it. (Sean/Kelly and Monique, make sure to send me yours!)
EDIT: Okay, it may ask for your address, but it doesn’t send it to me. 
Please email!
My fundraising goal is a very conservative $250, and I believe we can reach it. Please help?
I’m doing this race as my first 50K/ultra in July 2012. I’m so tardy to the party but...
Hey, I do not have insurance.
You need to be doing careful self-exams on a regular basis, girl. I imagine the connection is that uninsured/underinsured women are less likely to see a doctor to have them check.
I am a survivor of eight years and looking forward to the bookmark that you make. I always donate when possible, as of course, it is for a good and necessary cause.
I left a previous e-mail and forgot to give you my address for the bookmark that you make.
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Thank you and it is a wonderful gift for the cause.
Thanks, Sheryl!
Lemme check the finances… and the husband’s paycheck… and I think I should be able to toss you a little somethin-somethin… at least in the next couple weeks. Oh the joys of a one-income household…
Good luck! Did you ever hear about volunteering for SORT?
Calling today!
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