COLUMBUS, Ohio – Breast cancer-fighting programs in 30 central, eastern and southeastern Ohio counties are getting $1.5 million in help from Susan G. Komen Columbus, the organization announced Wednesday.
The charity will fund 26 programs that Julie McMahon, director of missions, predicts will provide health screening, education, and treatment to more than 141,000 women and men with breast between now and March 2016
The 2015 Komen Columbus Race for the Cure, the largest in the United States, is scheduled for Sat., May 16.
Dozens of community partners will provide breast health care services to underserved, underinsured women throughout central and southeastern Ohio, McMahon said.
-See complete list of community partners here
The emphasis of the project will be on education and screenings with the goal of making screening more accessible through mobile mammography and other outreach efforts, McMahon said.
MacMahon says “patient navigators” will be available encourage follow-up visits and help survivors find support.
The programs will also provide mammograms, surgical consultations, medications, breast prostheses, wigs.
Since 1993, Komen Columbus has contributed $25 million to support local breast health programs and breast cancer research, McMahon said.