Breast melanoma survivor speaks out to aid others and keep lives - KVUE.com

Fundraiser for cancer Care core

Quita Culpepper, KVUE 10:48 PM. CST March 06, 2017

every yr within the united states, about 220,000 situations of breast cancer are clinically determined in girls and about 2,000 in guys.

a different luncheon Tuesday in downtown Austin will celebrate the lives of breast cancer survivors, and the memory of those who fought towards the sickness.

it's also a method to carry cash in order that the Seton Breast Care core can proceed to aid in the battle.

you've gotten may additionally have heard the saying, "every photo tells a story."

Pam Crowther's story is one is one in every of surprise, worry, hope and recovery.

it's a story Pam and countless other ladies and men have inscribed on their hearts.

"i was first clinically determined two years ago," Crowther pointed out.  "It turned into demonstrated that it changed into breast melanoma stage three. I went via 20 weeks of chemo, six and a half weeks of radiation, a couple of distinctive surgeries. i am nevertheless going through surgical procedure and the breast care core has been remarkable walking along beside me all through my melanoma experience."

Co-founders Marcia Levy and Susan Lubin opened The Seton Breast Care middle in 2014.  They expected to serve simplest 90 sufferers in the first 90 days. 

"In these first ninety days," Levy said, "we noticed 600 sufferers."

They were no longer most effective decided to deliver state of the artwork care, they also wanted a special area the place sufferers might calm down.

'i wished to create a middle where women and men - because guys get breast cancer too - would come into a spa-like atmosphere," Lubin noted.  "which might optimistically calm them as plenty as viable."

With tranquil waiting rooms and caring staff, heaps have gotten a prognosis and treatment, with 32 percent of these services supplied to financially vulnerable patients without assurance.

"we now have a purpose within the center that we are going to always be state of the art," Lubin talked about.

And Tuesday's occasion of life luncheon is a fundraiser so as to add extra technology, including a big upgrade to the center's stereotactic biopsy device.

"It enables them to get to the tumor or the lump and with out invading different areas of the breast tissue," Levy said.  "we are going to be only one of two amenities within the whole state of Texas to have this expertise."

The center is additionally hoping to elevate ample dollars to upgrade to a Tomosynthesis 3-D mammogram laptop, the place varied views of the breast are taken and reconstructed right into a 3-D graphic.

so as to add on the brand new technology, the center should elevate at least $400,000.

Crowther says she's willing to inform the world her story as many times as indispensable to satisfy that aim and finally, save someone else's lifestyles.

"i'm no longer most effective representing me as a survivor, i am representing so many people who're fighters are survivors, and americans who aren't any longer here," she observed.

Crowther is the emcee for tomorrow's social gathering of existence luncheon.

funds raised from the experience benefits the Seton Breast Care center and the Zeta Tau Alpha groundwork to aid breast cancer awareness and training nationally.

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