UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2021.
Did you know that African American women have the highest breast cancer mortality rate, and are three times more likely to develop triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms?
Or that Asian American women enjoy a lower breast cancer risk rate until they move to the U.S. when their risk rises to equal that of Caucasian women?
Were you aware that Latinas tend to develop breast cancer at an earlier age than other groups, and also have a higher risk for triple-negative breast cancer?
Studying normal breast tissue from healthy women could lead to discovering the reasons for these statistics, and help develop new treatments or a cure.
The Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center will hold a tissue collection event in Bloomington on Saturday, April 18th at IU Health Bloomington Hospital, 1st-floor outpatient surgery, 601 W 2nd St, Bloomington, 47403.
Healthy women with no signs of breast cancer are asked to donate breast tissue for research. Women belonging to racial and ethnic minority groups are especially encouraged to participate.
Interested in donating? To participate you MUST:
- Be a woman at least 18 years of age
- Have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign an informed consent. (No signs of dementia or any psychiatric conditions that would not allow the understanding or rendering of informed consent.)
- Be willing to give about an hour and a half of your time to complete an informed consent, a medical history questionnaire, and a blood and breast tissue sample collection.
- Not be allergic to local anesthetics (numbing medicines such as lidocaine.)
- Not be receiving a therapeutic blood thinner (this does not include aspirin.)
- Not have breast implants.
For more information, or to schedule a donation appointment, please call 866-763-0047, or go to www.komentissuebank.iu.edu.
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