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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE TO GET A FREE BREAST EXAM IN NY

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I live in NYC and I don't have insurance and I would like to get checked out can anyone tell me where I can go to get it done?

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This event has already taken place, but the list of beneficiaries are listed that may give free exams. I hope this helps.

Sherrie

http://www.revlonrunwalk.com/ny/html.main/beneficiaries08.htm.

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Cancer Control Center of Harlem —

Funds will provide uninsured and underinsured women with culturally sensitive outreach and educational programs on the early detection of breast cancer. Through free cancer screening clinics, women gain access to free breast exams and screening mammography. (212) 939-8035

Columbia University Breast Cancer Screening Partnership of NY - Presbyterian Hospital — This program provides free breast, cervical and colorectal screening to medically underserved women in Manhattan. Funds from the Run/Walk will offset the cost of treatment for these women diagnosed with cancer. (212) 851-4516 (www.cc.columbia.edu)

Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center; Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Early Detection Program — Gouverneur Healthcare Services, on Manhattan's ethnically diverse Lower East Side, provides cancer screening and high quality comprehensive women's health services. Event proceeds will be used to ensure that uninsured women receive timely cancer screenings, diagnostic services and cancer treatment regardless of ability to pay. (212) 238-7997

William F. Ryan Health Community Health Network —The Ryan Center is a not-for-profit CommunityHealth Center that provides high quality, affordable,primary, preventative and specialty health careand supportive services to minority and medicallyunderserved populations. Funds will be used tosupport Women’s Health Education/Patient Navigatorprograms at Ryan’s main site and its satellite,Ryan-NENA, and affiliate Ryan/Chelsea-Clinton.(212)749-1820 (www.ryancenter.org)

National Breast Cancer Coalition

Funding enables NBCCF to provide free breast cancer information and supports unique educational programs. Activists receive science training to serve as consumer advocates on panels that help determine where breast cancer research funds are awarded. Programs also improve advocates' leadership skills and prepare consumers to participate in all aspects of clinical trials from design through oversight. (202) 296-7477 (www.stopbreastcancer.org)

National Women’s Cancer Research Alliance (NWCRA)

NWCRA was founded in 1997 by Lilly Tartikoff and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, along with charter sponsor EIF REVLON, to fund critical research in women’s cancers through a working alliance with leading medical institutions throughout the United States. NWCRA supports “cutting-edge” research directed at the development of new and more effective approaches to the early diagnosis and treatment of all women’s cancers. (818) 760-7722 (www.nwcra.org)

New York University School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology

Funds will support research in the Department of Pharmacology at the NYU School of Medicine on the role of receptor tyrosine kinases, receptor tyrosine phosphatases, and hormone receptors, such as the estrogen receptor and retinoid receptors on the development and treatment of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. Members of the Department use the latest molecular biology and crystallization techniques to elucidate the three dimensional structures of receptors and their related factors to develop drugs to selectively block their activities. We have identified a novel pathway which when targeted specifically leads to the death of breast cancer cells. The goal is to develop new drugs with minimal side effects of the treatment of breast cancer and other malignancies. (212) 263-6279, (http://www.med.nyu.edu/pharmacology/research/)

YWCA of Brooklyn Sister Strength Program

The YWCA of Brooklyn’s women’s health initiative is dedicated to reducing racial and economic disparities in health care. The YWCA’s Sister Strength program provides medically underserved and uninsured women with breast health education, clinical breast exams, and mammograms. As a member of the Brooklyn Breast Health Partnership, the YWCA coordinates free mammograms with most of the major medical centers in the borough. Women undergoing treatment and in recovery are linked with a peer navigator, and participate in support groups and specialized exercise classes. (718) 875-1190 ext. 590 (www.ywcabklyn.org)

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Great info, Sherrie. Thanks for posting the information.

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terisan123 says ...

I live in NYC and I don't have insurance and I would like to get checked out can anyone tell me where I can go to get it done?

I would also check with your local health department. If they don't do them they might have a contract with someone who does. It might not be free, but it would be at a greatly reduced price. I was able to get a mamogram done two years ago for $10

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