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This event marks the ninth stop of the Komen Community Challenge, a25-city campaign to elevate breast cancer on the national agenda and to drawattention to disparities in breast cancer mortality. Many Americans -- racialand ethnic minorities, low-income women and those with little or no healthinsurance -- are less likely to receive quality cancer care and are morelikely to die from the disease.
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At the Florida Komen Community Challenge, breast cancer survivors andactivists will come together to urge policymakers, community leaders,corporations and health care professionals to recognize breast cancer as thegrave crisis it is and affect change that will close gaps in research, publicpolicy and access to quality care that cause the disease to be deadlier forsome women.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths amongwomen in Florida, and more than one million women are uninsured. This yearalone, nearly 12,000 women in the state will get a breast cancer diagnosis andmore than 2,700 of them will die. Disparities in access to quality care andholes in public policy contribute to breast cancer deaths in Florida and causesome women to die of the disease more than others. We must close the gaps!
Nationwide, one in eight women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.Low-income women are three times more likely to die from breast cancer anduninsured women are 30 to 50 percent more likely to die from the disease thanwomen with insurance.WHAT: Florida Komen Community Challenge WHO: Interviews available with: -- Robert F. Thompson, President Komen Central Florida Affiliate -- Dr. Shenin Sachedina, Breast Surgeon and Author -- Meghan Evett, National Komen Representative -- Roger Jacobson, The Jacobson Group -- Invited local elected officials -- Theresa Beard, Girl Scouts of Citrus Council WHEN: Saturday September 22, 2007 8:00 a.m. -- Walk begins 9:00 a.m. -- Guitar Smash at Hard Rock Live WHERE: Hard Rock Live, Universal CityWalk, Orlando
SOURCE Susan G. Komen for the Cure