(Published by The Somers Record) By Bob Dumas, The Somers Record. Photo courtesy of Dottie McHugh. Dottie McHugh was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2005. But with the help of family and friends, and one particular organization – Support Connection – she made it through the ordeal and was declared cancer-free about a year […]
(Published by The Yorktown News) By Brian Donnelly, Halston Media. Photo courtesy of Beth Gilinsky Beth Gilinsky felt like she was just waiting for bad news. The 15-year Yorktown resident had been getting annual mammograms, as the daughter of a breast cancer survivor. Doctors detected something irregular in 2006, leading Gilinsky to get a biopsy that […]
Support Connection, Inc. is pleased to announce the winners of their 2015 Team Spirit Awards. The awards were presented in conjunction with the 21st Annual Support-A-Walk for Breast and Ovarian Cancer, which took place on October 4, 2015 at FDR Park, Route 202, Yorktown Heights, NY. The Team Spirit Awards encouraged friends, family members, co-workers […]
Support Connection recently received a $15,000 grant from Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation. The grant will help fund Support Connection’s One-on-One Peer Counseling Program. This program provides free, personalized, confidential support and education to people affected by breast and ovarian cancer. The professional Peer Counselors on Support Connection’s staff are cancer survivors themselves. Peer […]