Representatives of Seymour Pink Inc. Mary Deming, President (l) and Christine Vartko, Treasurer, presented a donation to Dr. Andrea Silber and Maureen Major-Campos, Program Manager, Women’s Oncology Program to benefit breast patients needing financial assistance and to support breast patient infertility counseling at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
This morning at Yale/Smilow Breast Cancer Center, Seymour Pink presented a check for $10,000 to be used to support 2 programs associated with Smilow Breast Cancer Center.
1. Five thousand dollars was given to support Breast Patient Infertility Counseling. An initiative which would allow financially challenged young patients to participate in post-chemotherapy fertility counseling and treatment. This would allow women to seek their treatments for the breast cancer without affecting their options to have children, after treatment.
2. Five thousand dollars was given in support of Dr. Andrea Siber, who often works with financially challenged breast cancer patients from the Derby and surrounding areas, such as Seymour, (her office is in Derby) who need additional support when undergoing treatment. For many, this diagnosis throws them into a group of working poor so to speak…no work, no pay and insurance if any with high deductibles.
It was very gratifying this morning to hear some of the work being done in these 2 areas alone. Once again this community’s FIGHT has its impact locally. THANK YOU to all who support Seymour Pink’s mission.
