What is the mission of the Susan Komen Foundation?
The mission is to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease through advancing research, education, screening and treatment. What can women do to protect themselves against breast cancer? The best way to deal with it at this point is to follow our three steps to breast health. Number one is to get a yearly mammogram; number two to get yearly doctor’s exams; and number three to practice breast self-exams on a monthly basis. How did you get involved in the Susan Komen Foundation? Actually I got involved through another passion of mine, which is golf. I signed up to play in a golf tournament that the local Komen Foundation was putting on. I signed up in August because they were doing a LPGA, pro-am and I wanted to get to play with one of the top players. So I thought if I volunteered, I would be on the inside and get to have a choice as to whom I wanted to play with. I started volunteering in August. By the time the golf tournament came along in October, I had been diagnosed wi
