Iowa
Our mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs of our communities and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer.
Iowa
Our mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs of our communities and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer.
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Call our breast care helpline to assist with finding local screening and diagnostic facilities or clinical research trials, requesting financial assistance, or other questions or care needs.
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Help us reach our vision of a world without breast cancer by getting involved in our local community.
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Help discover cures to breast cancer, faster
Your breast cancer information is as unique as you are. When combined with thousands of other ShareforCures members, you provide scientists with a more diverse set of data to make new discoveries fast.
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Breast Cancer Moments
Sharing our stories helps us draw strength from one another. We invite you to share your own story to inspire, comfort, and support others.
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Collect Donations and Help Save Lives!
YOU can make a BIG IMPACT in the fight against breast cancer! Komen has the tools you need to start your own individual or group fundraiser – or great ideas to share if you’re not sure where to start! Everything you need to set up customized fundraising webpage(s), connect to Facebook, utilize email & social media templates, engage your donors, and more.
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Go Pink for the Cure
The fall MORE THAN PINK Walk season is ending and we’d like to thank all schools, sports teams and clubs that volunteered and fundraised in support of our vision of a world without breast cancer. Looking for more ways to engage? Organize a Go Pink for the Cure event.
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Get Involved as an Advocate
Being an advocate for breast cancer awareness and research funding is one of the best ways you can make a difference.
Only through government action can we make the broad, systemic and lasting change we need to help us achieve our goal of reducing the current number of breast cancer deaths in the U.S. By mobilizing our communities to take action, we can ensure the voice and needs of those with breast cancer and their loved ones are heard by policymakers and government regulators.
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Join the fight to end breast cancer by attending an event in Iowa!
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ShareForCures
Your breast cancer information is as unique as you are. When combined with thousands of other ShareForCures members, you provide scientists with a more diverse set of date to make new discoveries, faster.
Latest News & Information
Shannon’s Story: Climbing the Mountain
Shannon is the third woman in her family to be diagnosed with breast cancer. “I remember hearing about methods where mountain climbers will look ahead to a specific spot on their trail and make a goal to just get to that next spot,” she said. “This is what I did during my treatment and continue to do. I envisioned the top of a mountain being the end of chemo, as that was one of my biggest mountains to climb.”
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Susan G. Komen Applauds U.S. Senate Confirmation of Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as Director of the National Institutes of Health
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, issued the following statement applauding the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan confirmation of Monica Bertagnolli, MD, as the new Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “As a scientist, physician and breast cancer patient, Dr. Bertagnolli brings a distinctive understanding of the patient voice and a deep […]
The post Susan G. Komen Applauds U.S. Senate Confirmation of Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as Director of the National Institutes of Health appeared first on Susan G. Komen®.
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Susan G. Komen Iowa
State Executive Director, Iowa and Nebraska: Jennifer Redmond
Email: jredmond@komen.org
Phone: 402-251-5355