The Avon Foundation for Women is helping to fight cancer in the Lafayette area.
The nonprofit has awarded a $50,000 grant to YWCA Greater Lafayette Women’s Cancer Program for this year. It will increase awareness of the benefits of early detection of breast cancer and to pay for breast cancer screenings and diagnostic procedures for low-income uninsured and underinsured women.
The YWCA Women’s Cancer Program will educate women and refer them to free mammograms and clinical breast exams in their own communities, pay for additional diagnostic procedures, and help them access free treatment if they are diagnosed with breast cancer. The vital program also will provide cervical cancer screenings, access to treatment, and patient navigation for women undergoing diagnostic procedures and treatment for breast or cervical cancer.
The YWCA Women’s Cancer Program has reached more than 865,000 women with information about the importance of early detection of breast cancer since 1999. It's referred more than 21,000 women for mammograms and clinical breast exams.
The program serves Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Fountain, Greene, Hamilton, Howard, Jasper, Miami, Montgomery, Newton, Parke, Pulaski, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Vermillion, Vigo, Warren and White counties.