Lowcountry Komen outreach coordinator attends White House event celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness month
 On October 25, Lowcountry Komen Outreach Coordinator and Public Policy chair, Lucy Spears was honored to attend an event at the White House celebrating National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Joining Lucy was Jenny Luray, president of the Komen Advocacy Alliance. The event featured remarks by first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden. In speaking about the advances made and those still to come, the First Lady said: "...Survivors and those who love them started organizing and advocating and lobbying for more money, for more research, and better treatment for this disease. "And today, because of that work, the number of women getting regular mammograms has dramatically increased, and the five-year survival rate when breast cancer is diagnosed in time is 98 percent -- and that's compared to 74 percent in the early 80s. "I hope that our children and grandchildren won't be able to imagine a time when anyone in this country went bankrupt just because they had the misfortune of getting sick. And I hope that statistics like one in eight and one every 13 minutes will be incomprehensible to our kids -- incomprehensible -- because of all the strides that we've made and the work that we've done for this cure and for this reform." |
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