News and Events
November 2011
Come see us!
Temple Chaverim
Nov 13th- 9:30- 1:30
Thank you
The Breast of Everything
Was a huge success!!
With over $8000 raised for
The WTFC and Susan G. Komen!!
The WTFC is not able to participate
in all of the
"
Nassau County Craft and Gift Shows"
Please check below their flyer
for dates we will be exhibiting!!
Come see us!!
A Big Thank You toMaximus Salon
For hosting a Zumba Dance Party
led by our dynamic, energetic and most
amazing instructor -
Beth Levine
There were fantastic raffle prizes
and givaways. We raised over $1600 to
support breast cancer research.
Please join us next year!
Old News
On Sept 12th 2010....
Team The WTFC walked/ran in support of the 20th annual Susan G. Komen "Race for the Cure" in Central Park.
It was an emotional, moving but mostly spectacular day spent with family, friends, strangers, survivors and 28,000 others!!!!
After a few tears from heaven, we finished up the walk with lots of picture's, WTF's and a great big WTFC welcome through the balloon arch!!!
We made new friends when Lisa and Lori came to NYC from Wichita Falls, Texas to join our team and walk in memory of their friend Dorothy.
I am proud to tell you that this year we had 70 walkers/runners whose fund raising efforts helped Team The WTFC to raise over $22,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On October 15th 2010"The Breast of Everything"fund
raiser had over 300 attendees, 37 vendors and over 64 gorgeous raffle prizes! The event sponsored by The WTFC Organization and Scrubz Body Scrub
raised over $6500 for the The WTFC organization and the
Susan G. Komen foundation!
WTFC dollars help fund breakthrough
research at Sloan Kettering!!!A study done at Sloan Kettering, showed that the activation of a
gene product called SRC helps breast cancer cells to enter bone marrow
and reside there latently, sometimes for decades. The presence of such
cells might explain why certain patients, in spite of showing no signs of disease, relapse with bone metastases many years after treatment."We
are now designing clinical trials to find and analyze such cells, and attack them with a drug that inhibits SRC," said Larry Norton, Memorial Hospital's Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Breast Cancer Programs, who participated
in the study. Using mathematical modeling approaches, Dr. Norton and colleagues are also devising therapeutic strategies that could prevent a patient's circulating tumor cells from revitalizing the tumor they once detached from -- a newly discovered phenomenon called self-seeding --
as well as from seeding new tumors around the patient's body.
Old News
First annual Hamlet Swimathon
raises over $2500 for The WTFC!!
Please help us fund the the research to find the cure!
Your contributions are tax- deductible
to the extent provided by law!
Well, I was lucky, I tested negative for the BRCA genes!.....my story