Dear Supporters, Researchers are getting closer and closer to finding cures and improving quality of life for breast cancer patients. We have seen those stories on the nightly news and via our social media channels. Earlier this year, Eric Parker of WFSB Channel 3, put the spotlight on Dr. Erin Hofstatter, a Yale oncologist and […]
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Misunderstanding leads to TBBCF partnership By Kathleen Edgecomb Thirteen years ago when Bill McDonough received a call at his home in Stonington from the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation seeking donations, he politely declined and hung up the phone. “She sounded like a telemarketer,” McDonough said recently, chuckling as he thought about Ellen Swercewski’s telephone
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2018 Honorary Walk Chair – In her own words – June 12, 2018 I grew up in a small town called Stevens Point, Wisconsin, with my parents and older brother Brian. In 2002, I moved to Connecticut for college and graduate school, studying to become a physician assistant. As I neared my last year in
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2018 Honorary Walk Chair Brings Message of Hope by Kathleen Edgcomb – June 13, 2018 Johanna D’Addario, a breast cancer survivor and advocate of knowing your family medical history, has been named the honorary chair of the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation’s 13th Annual Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut. Johanna, who lives in Cromwell and is
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by Kathleen Edgecomb – June 13, 2018 When volunteers from the newly created Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation contacted Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in 2006 seeking financial support for its marathon fundraiser, the New London hospital had already cut back on giving to charitable organizations. “At the time, everyone was doing a walk,” recalled William
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He gets by with a little help from his friends by Kathleen Edgecomb – June 8, 2018 In the past, Jay Gionet has raised more than $62,000 for the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation. And he’s not done yet. During a two-hour walk-a-thon on Memorial Day Weekend, Gionet, a math teacher at Clark Lane Middle
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