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Special Promotional Supplement
Del aware Bre a s t C ancer Coalition
M ay i s M a mm o g r a ph y M o n t h
One in Eight, Don’t Wait
WILMINGTON
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One in Eight women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer in their lifetime. Inside, find out how the
DBCC can help you and your loved ones through
advocacy, research and support.
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Victoria Cooke
With One in Eight
women getting
breast cancer,
Don’t Wait. Find out
how you can help.
Illuminate Bring the status
of your own breast health to
light with an annual screening
mammogram and clinical
breast exam. Also practice
monthly breast self-exams.
Early detection and treatment
of breast cancer saves lives.
Advocate Encourage friends
and family members to get
annual mammograms, and
follow up to be sure that they
did. Ask them to join you in
the DE-feet Breast Cancer 5K
Run-Walk. Make your voice
heard on a state and national
level about the importance
of funding breast cancer
research.
Participate There are many
opportunities to help DBCC
in its mission. Become an
outreach volunteer or a peer
mentor, help or partner with
DBCC on a fundraising event,
or help with agency functions.
Call 866-312-DBCC to find out
more.
Donate Your donations help
to fund the DBCC’s education, outreach, support and
clinical trial programs. All of
the money we raise stays in
the local area to support the
women and men of our community.
But we can’t do it without
you. Make a secure online donation today by visiting www.
debreastcancer.org (under
“How You Can Help”) or call
866-312-DBCC.
Don’t wait—because one in
eight is one too many.
Thank you.
Text by susan oates
Cover and All photographs
by Jared Castaldi
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
I am one of the One in Eight women to be diagnosed with breast cancer in her
lifetime. As a grateful 17-year survivor, I sometimes say, ‘I’m one and done,’ but the
reality is that I am nowhere near finished my battle with breast cancer.
One woman is always one too many when it comes to a diagnosis of breast cancer. This year an estimated 600 Delawareans will be diagnosed, and an estimated
110 will die from the effects of the disease. That’s just not acceptable. So the battle
continues until our vision of a community where every person diagnosed with
breast cancer becomes a survivor, and fear and doubt are replaced with knowledge and hope becomes a reality.
Our message, “One in Eight. Don’t Wait,” is a call to action to advocate for good
breast health for yourself and all women. Any action you take is important. It can
be as easy as learning how to reduce your risk factors, making sure your friends
have their mammograms, asking them to walk with you in the First Annual DE-feet
Breast Cancer 5K Run/Walk, or shopping in the upscale resale boutique that’s opening soon in North Wilmington to benefit the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
In the pages that follow we share stories of how survivors and advocates have
joined with us in the battle against breast cancer. Each May as we proclaim May is
Mammography Month, and we revisit stories like these, I’m taken aback as to how
far the DBCC has come as an organization. The programs and services in these
stories are the result of our advocacy efforts and those of people who support us.
We’ve stood up many times for things such as saving the Women’s Mobile Health
Screening van, lobbying legislators to fund breast cancer research, and rallying
support for a woman who lost her home to a fire while going through chemotherapy. And we’ll stand up many times more before we’re through.
We hope you’ll join us in the battle against breast cancer, because One in
Eight isn’t just a number. It could be your neighbor. Call us or visit our Website to
find out how you can help.
Warm regards, Victoria G. Cooke
Executive Director, Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition
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In October 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released new
guidelines for routine mammograms,
clinical breast exams, and self-breast
exams for women age 40 and older.
The guidelines included a recommendation against routine mammograms
for women ages 40-49. The new recommendations caused confusion
among the general public and conflicting opinions among
cancer organizations. But one thing most could agree on,
and DBCC endorses, is that women should discuss what’s best
for their individual care with their healthcare provider.
The Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition continues to support the guidelines and the recommendations of the American Cancer Society. That’s why DBCC is, once again, proclaiming May is Mammography Month. “Screening mammograms
are the best tool available for early detection of breast cancer,”
says Jacqueline Napoletano, M.D. “Early detection and treatment saves lives.”
Ask Delaware’s first lady, Carla Markell. In March 2005, a
routine annual mammogram revealed that the 40-something
wife and mother had breast cancer. As a result of early detection and treatment, Markell recently celebrated her five-year
anniversary as a breast cancer survivor.
“My first reactions were shock and disbelief,” Markell says.
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Carla Markell
In the next phase, “I was totally focused on my breast cancer,
doing what I had to do to take care of it.” She sprang into action with the support of her husband, Jack, family and friends.
“The best advice I got was from my sister-in-law,” Markell says.
“She told me, ‘Accept the help. You’re going to need it.’”
Since then, Carla Markell has helped other women
through her advocacy of Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition
(she has served as a board member) and by being open and
honest about her own journey. She recently addressed a soldout crowd at DBCC’s Southern Lights of Life fundraising gala,
saying, “I am astounded at the statewide scope and reach of
the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, especially your outreach to medically underserved communities and people.
Keep up the good work.”
In her support of the fight against breast cancer, Markell
continues to encourage good breast health practices for women. They include getting annual mammograms.
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
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When breast cancer strikes One in
Eight women, the impact is felt by their
families and friends, too. Often they search
for ways to help.
Kathleen Carney helped her sister
battle breast cancer, but she wanted to
do more. She saw what more looked like
when she and her husband, John Williams, attended the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition’s Northern Lights of Life: An
Evening of Living and Giving at Longwood
Gardens. They called DBCC development
director Priscilla Rakestraw about creating
a partnership.
The duo who formed The Carney &
Williams Team of RE/MAX Integrity (carneywilliamshomes.com) in Chadds Ford,
Pennsylvania, committed to donating onehalf of one percent of the closing price of
every home their team sells during calendar year 2010 to DBCC. That’s as much as
20 percent of each home sale commission
they receive. With a goal of $20 million to
$25 million in home sales for 2010, the Carney & Williams Team could make a very
sizeable contribution.
“This is a young
couple with four children at home. They
could be saving this
money for college
tuitions,” Rakestraw
says. She is humbled
by their generosity.
“It’s part of who we
are to help others and
give back to our community,” Carney says.
Adds Williams, “We
hope to be able to have
a very meaningful impact on breast cancer
research, and we want to do that in a way
that helps women in our local community
through the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition.
“We’ve seen the financial impact cancer can have on families, too, with people
needing to sell or downsize their homes.
Not every sale is a happy one, but we can
Kathleen Carney
and John Williams
do our part to help families in the future.”
Donations from carneywilliamshomes.
com will help to fund DBCC’s Clinical Trials Peer Mentor program and Research
Committee.
To discuss ways to partner with DBCC
in the fight against breast cancer, contact
Priscilla Rakestraw at (302) 778-1102 x17.
DBCC Research Committee
Supports Clinical Trials
Nanci Mayer-Mihalski
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
Not only is she One in Eight, she was the third woman in
her immediate family to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Nanci
Mayer-Mihalski had her first mammogram at age 35, five years
earlier than expected. That was after her mother was diagnosed
and her sister “lit up like a Christmas tree” on her first mammogram at age 37. Mayer-Mihalski has since passed her 10-year
anniversary as a survivor. Three of those years have been spent
on DBCC’s Research Committee, which she now chairs.
“I needed to make some sense out of it all,” she recalls thinking while “getting zapped by all these ions” during radiation
treatments. “I’m good at research”—she worked in pharmaceuticals at DuPont—“and I’m really passionate about clinical
trials.”
As breast cancer evolves, so has the role of DBCC’s research
committee. Mayer-Mihalski works closely with DBCC special projects manager Cathy Holloway to bring current research into the
peer mentoring curriculum and to co-facilitate training sessions.
A primer on clinical trials is now included in the training.
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Lolita Lopez
“We are collaborators in providing access to screenings,”
says Lolita Lopez, president and CEO, Westside Family
Healthcare, which, for 15 years, has called upon Women’s Mobile Health Screening, a subsidiary of DBCC since June 2005,
to provide mammography screenings for its patients.
“I think DBCC taking on the van, which was in jeopardy
as to whether it would continue, was critical so that we could
have that access point for our patients,” Lopez says.
Providing access to care wherever it’s needed is a priority
for DBCC. Women’s Mobile Health Screening and Screening
for Life, a program of Delaware’s Division of Public Health
that provides assistance to uninsured and underinsured, work
together to see that every woman in Delaware who needs a
mammogram gets one. Lack of insurance isn’t the only obstacle to making that happen, however. Women with insurance
often don’t want to take time from work for a mammography
appointment, which is why the van is frequently scheduled at
corporate campuses. With a prescription from their doctors,
employees can get screened in a few as 20 minutes.
In the Hispanic community, Lopez finds barriers of language, a general mistrust of the medical community and fear
of cancer. “We have to do a lot of convincing to get women
to get screened,” she says. “With the convenience of the van
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coming on-site and Westside as a trusted healthcare provider
being the first point of entry, having use of the van increased
mammography screenings among our patients.”
Data from Women’s Mobile Health Screening’s most recent
full contract-year (July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008) showed that
1,261 women had screening mammograms on the van, with
801 through Screening for Life and 252 for Hispanic women.
“What’s significant is that of all available locations, including hospitals and free-standing imaging centers, the van
accounted for 40 percent of all Screening for Life mammograms performed that year,” says Laura Nadel, program coordinator for Women’s Mobile Health Screening.
The van has been off the road since January 31, 2009, to
upgrade to the digital technology used in hospitals and imaging centers. During that time DBCC provided 148 women with
transportation to their screening mammogram appointments.
Look for the van back on the road by early summer. It will
be staffed by medical professionals from Beebe Medical Center, DBCC’s new screening partner. Women must have a prescription to be screened on the van. The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act Law guarantees privacy
of patient records. For more information or scheduling, call
Women’s Mobile Health Screening at 888-672-9647.
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
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Decoding the Diagnosis
Receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer is
instantly life-altering. “The lights went out,”
“I was in a fog,” or “I didn’t hear anything after the word cancer,” patients have said.
As a research-based organization
aligned with the local medical community
and national organizations, DBCC staff is
armed with knowledge and experience to
facilitate understanding of the diagnosis
and provide support to help clear the fog.
“When I was beginning my journey, I
may have had the opinion that DBCC was
just a nice group of women providing support to the newly diagnosed,” says four-year
breast cancer survivor Lorraine Gilson.
“But getting involved with them later really
opened my eyes to just how involved DBCC
is in the larger breast cancer arena and how
they fill a vital role in the community.”
Volunteering for DBCC about a year into
her breast cancer journey, Gilson participated in a pilot program presented in Philadelphia by the Project LEAD Institute, the
National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund’s
science training course for activists.
“It was very empowering to get an education on the science of breast cancer,”
Gilson says. “For the first time I could step
away from breast cancer and look at it as
clinical rather than personal.”
with area hospitals, including Beginning
Your Breast Cancer Journey at the Helen F.
Graham Cancer Center. The free program
began four years ago to give newly diagnosed breast cancer survivors answers
to their questions and connect them with
the support of an oncology nurse, a social
worker, a nutritionist, and a DBCC staff
member. Success led to the Beginning
Your Pink Ribbon Journey, now offered at
Bayhealth Cancer Center, Tunnell Cancer
Center at Beebe Medical Center, and Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, and to the creation
of Nurture Your Self at the Graham Center.
For more information about programs
and services, visit debreastcancer.org. For
more information about Project LEAD, visit
www.stopbreastcancer.org
Lorraine Gilson
Encouraged by what she had learned,
Gilson joined DBCC staff for Project LEAD’s
five-day course to study research design,
advocacy, and the science, genetics, and
epidemiology of breast cancer. She is now
on DBCC’s research committee.
DBCC uses the latest information in its
daily education and outreach efforts, and
in support programs offered in partnership
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
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Barbara McGowan
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Barbara McGowan of Sussex County
doesn’t get to see her friend Sally Domingo, a nurse who lives and works in
New Castle County, as often as she’d
like. So when Sally suggested they meet
in Dover at the Breast Cancer Update in
April 2009, Barbara jumped at the opportunity to see her friend and to hear keynote speaker Susan G. Love, M.D. Then,
just four days before the event, Barbara
was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“It was the most amazing happenstance that I was able to be at the Breast
Cancer Update and get the information
and resources I needed immediately,”
McGowan says. “I was in the oh-my-godwhat-do-I-do stage, and the answers
were right there for me.”
The annual Breast Cancer Update
is one of many ways DBCC serves the
people of Delaware and surrounding
communities. The free one-day forum,
open to the public, has become one of
Delaware’s most trusted sources of upto-date breast cancer information, drawing a crowd of physicians, nurses, breast
cancer survivors and advocates. Panels
of local, regional and national breast
cancer experts discuss advances in the
science and treatment of breast cancer.
The 13th Annual Breast Cancer Update, held April 28, features keynote
speakers Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the deputy
chief medical officer of the American
Cancer Society, and Kelly Corrigan, a
New York Times best-selling author and
breast cancer survivor. The event is sponsored by AstraZeneca, Wilmington Trust
and the Delaware Health Advisory Fund.
DBCC also brings breast health presentations to corporate and community
groups. For more, call 866-312-DBCC.
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in Eight—a breast cancer survivor of four years—and a strong
supporter of the DBCC. Why? Because when she was diagnosed,
she reached for the phone and DBCC answered the call.
“When you call DBCC, you get a live person from your community,” says Arnell, who called DBCC’s Dover office when she
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about clinical trials to help people have a
broader understanding,” Mayer-Mihalski
says. “While we cannot give medical advice, we’re helping to educate women
about clinical trials and encouraging
them to ask their doctors if one is not offered.”
To date, more than 170 breast cancer
survivors have been trained as peer mentors. They are paired, based on similar life
circumstances, diagnoses and treatments,
with people who are newly diagnosed with
breast cancer to provide support.
An advanced clinical trials training
course is rolling out this spring to give select mentors more comprehensive training. The modules were created in collaboration with Kandie Dempsey, director
of the cancer research department at
the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, a
member of the NCI Community Cancer
Centers Program.
“Right now there are more clinical trials in this state than ever before, thanks to
Dr. Nicholas Petrelli (head of the center),
not only for women but for people with
all tumor types,” Mayer-Mihalski says.
“Our standard chemo combinations are
getting more effective as a result of clinical trials and putting many women with
breast cancer in a state of remission.”
Mayer-Mihalski’s passion for research
and clinical trials goes beyond her own
experience. When her husband, Tim,
was diagnosed with lung cancer, he was
told that his death was imminent. Unwilling to give up, he participated in a
clinical trial.
“He’s taken one pill a day, and has had
nearly seven years of quality of life,” says
Mayer-Mihalski. “He plays tennis three
times a week, and the only side effects
were curly hair and a skin rash.”
Mayer-Mihalski is proud of DBCC’s
role in educating people about clinical
trials, as well as its partnerships with the
Graham Center and hospitals throughout the state. She has been a DBCC board
member for six years and a peer mentor
to other women with breast cancer.
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
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organization. Tax ID: 52-204-5298
To learn more, visit www.debreastcancer.org.
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