FACT: Join the only Jewish Walk/Run in the world to benefi t a BRCA Multidisciplinary Clinic that serves women and men at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center’s Davidoff Cancer Center.
FACT: Rabin Medical Center partners with Memorial Sloan Kettering and Dana Farber to eradicate cancer.
FACT: 1 in 7 Jewish women will be diag-nosed with breast cancer. Over 22,000 women will develop ovarian cancer annually in the USA. These forms of cancer are more prevalent among Jewish women in the USA and Israel.
FACT: 10% of breast cancer patients carry a mutation in the BRCA genes, facing an 80% chance of developing breast or ovarian cancer.
FACT: 2% of the Israeli population carries the mutated gene, (higher than other ethnic groups). Israeli women with a family history of multiple malignancies, especially breast and ovarian cancer, are routinely offered the BRCA gene test at Rabin Medical Center.
FACT: Proceeds from this event benefi t the BRCA Multidisciplinary Clinic at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center, a unique early man-agement, life-saving clinic. Women will be spared by early detection screening and follow-up for breast and ovarian cancer.
FACT: The Davidoff Cancer Center at Rabin includes six units and clinics and seven de-partments to provide treatment for various types of cancer and will be expanded to twice its present size by 2017.
WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCERMOTHER. WIFE. SISTER. DAUGHTER. FRIEND. SURVIVOR
RABIN MEDICAL CENTERONCOLOGY ANNUAL STATISTICS71,785 Outpatient Visits50,175 Radiation Therapy Treatments37,502 Chemotherapy Treatments10,124 Integrative Medicine Unit
COME CELEBRATE ISRAEL AT THE
NYC 5K RUN/WALK BEFORE THE CELEBRATE ISRAEL PARADEHELP ERADICATE BREAST & OVARIAN CANCER
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER
SIXTH ANNUAL
Robert F. Wagner Jr. ParkBattery Place, NYCSunday, June 5, 9:00 am RAIN OR SHINE
REGISTER / DONATEafrmc.kintera.org/schlep16212-279-2522 afrmc.org
Children $18 • Adults $36CANCER SURVIVORS WALK / RUN FOR FREE
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center is a 501(c)3.
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center636 Broadway, Suite 218, NY, NY 10012
212-279-2522 • www.afrmc.org
Peter G. Riguardi, CHAIRMAN Ron Cohen, PRESIDENT
Joshua Eli Plaut, Ph.D., EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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