GN Breast cancer coalition to recieve $25k from state

Adam Lidgett

The Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition is set to receive $25,000 in state funding to support the coalitions efforts to fight breast cancer, state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola) announced Thursday.

The $25,000, which Martins said in a news release he secured, would support the coalition’s “Lend a Helping Hand” initiative.

The initiative assists women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, helping them get prosthesis and wigs.

Lend a Helping Hand also provides funding for transportation to appointments, homecare, child care and groceries, the release said.

“Breast cancer is an issue that hits close to home for Long Islanders. Nearly all of us have been affected by breast cancer in someway, either battling it ourselves or supporting a loved one or friend in their personal fight,” Martins said. “The Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition provides important services that help make life a little easier for breast cancer patients, allowing them to focus on their own health, as well as supporting breast cancer research.”

The state funding will also support the coalition’s Students & Scientists Breast Cancer/Environment Research Program, the release said. This program gives internships to high school students to help in the field of breast cancer research, the release said.

“The Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition is so grateful that this state funding secured by Senator Martins will fund two of our successful programs,” said Laura Weinberg, the coalition’s president.  “One of the programs which assists newly diagnosed women with breast cancer and our high school student program which cultivates the next generation of breast cancer researchers on environmental links to breast cancer, causation and prevention.”

The non-profit coalition was founded in 1992, the release said, to fight breast cancer through outreach, research and activism.

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