![]() Report: Houston Astros fan favorite Yuli Gurriel in talks with NL team.The Tall Ships Challenge is sailing back to Galveston in April.Another KPRC 2 anchor announces departure from the news channel.“So I think that once I got the opportunity to be a board member, when they reached out, it was something I was super excited to do because I felt like it was just some way for me to give back in a more substantial way other than just participating in the race,” said Scanlon. After she moved to Texas, she served on the Komen Houston board of directors for seven years through March 2019. ![]() Seeing lines of breast cancer survivors finishing the race and receiving their roses inspired her. She started out running in the Race for the Cure in Kansas City. She called the event “fantastic” with about 60% women and 40% men in attendance.įort Bend resident Debbie Scanlon has been active with Susan G. She added that Komen intentionally chose a couple, Carrie and Jonathan Brinsden, to chair the event because they wanted to make sure men turned out and not just women. “We’re not just, you know, for women, and we’re not just a pink organization,” Voss said. She said Komen Houston doesn’t just serve women but those men in their lives that support them, as well as some male breast cancer patients. Voss explained the new luncheon was designed to help rebrand the organization as much bigger and broader than pink ribbons and to show people that Komen Houston has changed over the years. Renew Houston: Get the latest wellness news delivered to your inbox ![]() “We work with the different service organizations in each county to ensure that, you know, what works in Harris County isn’t necessarily going to work in Fort Bend county or Galveston County,” she said, adding that most of the counties lack their own county hospitals and health systems. She explained that each of the seven counties it serves faces different challenges. Voss said it is the greater Houston area’s only local organization that fights breast cancer through education, treatment, support, advocacy and research. Komen organization and is its own 501(c)3 nonprofit. Komen Houston is an affiliate of the national Susan G. For further COVID-19 updates, visit the website. Komen recommends temporarily putting off breast cancer screenings during the novel coronavirus pandemic unless an individual is showing symptoms because it will open up medical resources for fighting the virus.
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