Steppin’ Out In Pink Walk 2015 Raises Funds To Support Cancer Research
This year’s Steppin’ Out In Pink walk drew more than 6,000 participants near the Gundersen Health System campus in La Crosse Saturday. The yearly event is held to raise money to subsidize mammograms for under-insured and uninsured patients in the area, and to provide resources for local breast cancer patients.
All of the money goes to help cancer patients in the area and that was added incentive for the locals to get involved in the 4 1/2 mile walk. The $400,000 organizers hoped to raise will help a lot of local residents secure better services.
There have been 4,000 new cases of breast cancer in Wisconsin this year, and the American Cancer Society said 720 of those cases have been fatal.
Gundersen Medical Foundation member Debbie Kroner said, “One in seven will get breast cancer.” New comer to Wisconsin, Mary Ann Peterson understood this all too well. Six months after moving to Gundersen she went Gundersen Medical Foundation to get checked up.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer on Valentine’s Day and needed a bilateral mastectomy, 8 very aggressive chemotherapy treatments, and 33 radiation sessions to treat her cancer. She has been cancer free for 8 months.
She stepped out in pink to say thank you and to raise money so others can have similar success stories. You can visit the Steppin’ Out In Pink Facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/SteppinOutInPink.
Tags: breast cancer, can, cancer awareness
