ARMIDALE Radiology is joining forces with the McGrath Foundation to raise much need funds during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Throughout October, Armidale Radiology will be turning pink and making a $10 donation to the McGrath Foundation for every mammogram performed.
The funds raised will help place additional McGrath Breast Care Nurses in communities right across Australia and to increase breast awareness in young Australians, with a particular emphasis on younger women.
Practice manager Chrys Woodyard said the clinic had 100 mammograms booked across October already and will also raise funds through a special onsite breakfast barbecue on Thursday 10 October and its Annual Pink Morning Tea on Thursday 24 October, to which it invites patients and local residents.
“Supporting families experiencing breast cancer is something Armidale Radiology and the I-MED Network is passionate about,” she said.
“We are thrilled to be helping raise funds again and, collectively, our network hopes to raise $100,000 for the cause this year. This is in addition to the more than $344,000 the I-MED Network has donated to the McGrath Foundation over the past three years.”
McGrath Foundation ambassador and director Tracy Bevan said McGrath Breast Care Nurses act as patient advocates, co-ordinating care for Australian families experiencing breast cancer and providing information, vital support and referral to services throughout this time.
“Just five years ago, we had four McGrath Breast Care Nurses in Australia, but today, we’re proud to have 85 McGrath Breast Care Nurses working nationally who have supported over 20,000 Australian families experiencing breast cancer.
“It costs around $350,000 to place a full-time McGrath Breast Care Nurse in the community for a minimum three year period, so the money raised by organisations like I-MED is helping us immensely – without community and government support, and corporate friends like the I-MED Network, we couldn’t provide the level of support we do to families going through the breast cancer experience,” Ms Bevan said.
Armidale Radiology is at 217-219 Rusden Street, Armidale, phone: 02 6772 2349.
For more information about The McGrath Foundation visit www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au.
